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Date:      Sun, 22 May 2005 18:23:57 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault
Message-ID:  <346E2D35-5420-4A19-A187-9628709E72BF@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20050522161139.GC51285@meer.net>
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On 22/05/2005, at 18:11, Joe Rhett wrote:

>>>> You need to overwrite the metadata (se above) which are located in
>>>> different places again depending on metadata format.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So where is it located with the sil3114 controler?
>>> (same as 3112, but with 4 ports...)
>>>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:45:05AM +0200, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Depends on what BIOS you have on there, several exists for the SiI
>> chips, -current or mkIII would tell you which. Just null out the last
>> 63 sectors on the disks and you should be fine since all possible
>> formats are in that range...
>>
>
> I know how to do this using dd from the start of the disk.  How do =20
> I do
> this at the end of the disk?

man dd ? :)

you need to get the size of the disk in sectors (hint atacontrol)

then you do dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/adN oseek=3D(size-63)

- S=F8ren





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