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Bernd Walter wrote:

> From within FreeBSD:
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn
> replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named.

Did it from my FBSD 5.1-C x86 machine.
It writed the 10240 bytes successfully but it's still not working on the
alpha :)

It says "You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of screen)"

Thanks for helping, I really appreciate!

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