From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 12:00:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC5537B40C for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail8.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B6E43F3F for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19195 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 19:00:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jul 2003 19:00:04 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6GJ02GI023519; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:00:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030716171026.GA14530@cicely12.cicely.de> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:00:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Bernd Walter cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:00:06 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/