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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 01:39:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        support@coolnet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disklabel help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980521013848.22518B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <35632FA5.BDA0D71A@tdx.co.uk>

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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Try,
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/DISKDEVICE bs=1 count=1

non nononoonononononono!
this won't help anything.....
how was the disk originally set up?
what happenned to it?

> 
> (for DISKDEVICE e.g. use 'rsd0' for SCSI disk 0 etc.) 
> 
> Be carful - or you'll nuke a valid disk with data on it! - for more info see
> Doug's 'Formatting Media for use with FreeBSD' guide at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl Pielorz
> 
> support@coolnet.net wrote:
> > 
> > is ther a way to reset the disklabeling if it has been removed or
> > damaged?
> > 
> > --
> > ==============================================
> > Pat Cummings
> 
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