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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2000 22:13:26 -0400
From:      nm <nm@vt.edu>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: more disk trouble
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.20000501221325.038dc2c0@mail.vt.edu>

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At 07:12 PM 5/1/00 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>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.

Aha... now I do not feel like a complete idiot.

Nick Maniscalco
still incomplete


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