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To: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers <fty@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: some trick to disklabel ZiP disks? 
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> 
> Shouldn't it be this simple?
> If not, pls advise!

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd1 count=16
# disklabel -rwB sd1 auto
# disklabel -e sd1
<add partitions, etc.  Don't use the 'c' partition.>

You have to nuke the MBR before you can use 'auto'.

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