Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:00:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <XFMail.20030716150018.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030716171026.GA14530@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On 16-Jul-2003 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:27:21AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote: >> 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 :) > > Maybe you need to write more then count=1. > I'm unshure about the exact bit pattern and position that causes this > kind of problem. > >> It says "You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of screen)" > > As long as dd claimed to succed I think the blocks were written. It may be that sysinstall/libdisk is back to failing to work on a blank disk. I have seen this problem in the past but can't remember if it was ever fixed. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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