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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2000 19:12:11 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        nm <nm@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: more disk trouble
Message-ID:  <20000501191211.A2237@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000501182316.038dab70@mail.vt.edu>; from nm@vt.edu on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:23:17PM -0400
References:  <3.0.32.20000501182316.038dab70@mail.vt.edu>

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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:23:17PM -0400, nm wrote:
> first, I...
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=16
> disklabel da1
> 
> This just gives me the same error message that I reported the first
> time:
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument

Our disklabel handling code is FUBAR'ed on the Alpha.  I had to put a
SCSI disk on a damned i386 box to zero it out last time I needed to.
 
-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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