From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 18:44: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from groggy.anc.ptialaska.net (groggy.anc.ptialaska.net [198.70.228.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C528837B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by groggy.anc.ptialaska.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA00813 for "freebsd-questions" ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:43:57 GMT (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:43:57 GMT From: groggy@iname.com Message-Id: <200008310143.BAA00813@groggy.anc.ptialaska.net> X-Authentication-Warning: groggy.anc.ptialaska.net: abc set sender to groggy@iname.com using -f Subject: dd on atapi device causes reboot X-Mailer: Umail v1.2 (FreeBSD) To: "freebsd-questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have 3 atapi hard drives - wd0 wd2 and wd3 (3.51 release). the whole system is on wd0 ... i know when i format wd3 i should do a: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd3 count=2 but if i do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd3 count=2 my machine reboots instantly everytime ... is this a bad atapi driver bug? seems like that isn't up to freebsd standards :) please reply off list as well ... ------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message