From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 1 19:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595FF37B9D8; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nm@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16861; Mon, 1 May 2000 22:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dog ([198.82.106.223]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with SMTP id <0FTW00ABPU7V7B@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Mon, 1 May 2000 22:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 22:13:26 -0400 From: nm Subject: Re: more disk trouble X-Sender: nmanisca@mail.vt.edu To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-id: <3.0.32.20000501221325.038dc2c0@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:12 PM 5/1/00 -0700, 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. Aha... now I do not feel like a complete idiot. Nick Maniscalco still incomplete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message