From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 1 15:29:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D5537B67B; Mon, 1 May 2000 15:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04106; Mon, 1 May 2000 15:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005012237.PAA04106@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nm Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more disk trouble In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 18:23:17 EDT." <3.0.32.20000501182316.038dab70@mail.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 15:37:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At 02:14 PM 5/1/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Well I tried this and I get the same results as before :( > > > >What did you try? Exact commands and output; I can't read over your > >shoulder, and I'm too busy to hack into your box to do it myself. > > 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 You've just nuked the label, of course it's going to be invalid. You need to lay down a new label; use disklabel -rw da1 auto (Note that all of this is in the handbook). > Maybe the install program for NetBSD automatically clears out the > first few sectors before making a new label... Sysintsall does this as well. > I don't know if this means much, but disklabel /dev/rda1c appears > to work. Should it not? It may, for some values of "work". Don't expect it to behave. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message