From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 1 19:12:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1FA37B79A for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c06-106.006.popsite.net [64.24.38.106]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA78668; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA02564; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 19:12:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: nm Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more disk trouble Message-ID: <20000501191211.A2237@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <3.0.32.20000501182316.038dab70@mail.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000501182316.038dab70@mail.vt.edu>; from nm@vt.edu on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:23:17PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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