From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 29 8:53:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A5637B71A for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2TGrlB32274 for alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:53:47 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is `ccd' broken on Alpha? Message-ID: <20010329085347.A32246@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org References: <20010328000954.C18676@dragon.nuxi.com> <15042.28453.158495.901316@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20010328151503.A88970@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010328152453.A15677@hub.freebsd.org> <200103290342.f2T3gae08020@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103290342.f2T3gae08020@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:42:36PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:42:36PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > Could it be simply that there are no slices on the alpha? So the `c' > partition really represents the whole disk on that platform. But on > the i386 it would just represent the slice, which in general won't be > the same as the whole disk. It is possible it has something to do with the slice code. When I tested it yesterday on on an i386 box, I used ``disklabel -rw daX auto'' before ccdconfig'ing them. So they should have been dangeriously/truely dedicated. But we do know there is weird label differences between Alpha and i386.... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message