Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:24:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a strange problem with slices, 3.0-current, and disks Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971205102137.14560A-100000@terra> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971205093353.14108A-100000@terra>
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On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > For example, what doesn't work is the following: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0 bs=512 count=128. > dd reports one block in, zero out. > The kernel prints three messages of the form: > wd0s1: type 0x6, start 63, end=4193279, size=4193217: OK > wd0s2: .... different start and end and size: OK > wd0s5: ... different start and end and size: OK OK, I just got part of this problem. Our cd writer is on a linux box, and the special minor number for wd0 got truncated from 0x10002 to 2. What's interesting is that this never caused trouble until we hit a dos-partitioned disk, i.e. all the failures I'm having I never had on an unitialized disk. interesting. Wish I could have convinced the vendor to leave the disks untouched. For those of you writing CDs: run mkisofs on a freebsd box! The other question remains. Where does ezboot come from? ron
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