From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 1 19:14: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2885937B999; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA31525; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:13:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 19:13:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: nm , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more disk trouble In-Reply-To: <20000501191211.A2237@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aw, just give him the hacked dd(1) I gave you.... On Mon, 1 May 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:23:17PM -0400, nm wrote: > > first, I... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=16 > > disklabel da1 > > > > This just gives me the same error message that I reported the first > > time: > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > > Our disklabel handling code is FUBAR'ed on the Alpha. I had to put a > SCSI disk on a damned i386 box to zero it out last time I needed to. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message