Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:10:27 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <20030716171026.GA14530@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3F14B809.8010005@swissgeeks.com> References: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716082226.GN72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <1058344752.3f150f30b2195@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716085435.GP72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F14AEDA.40500@swissgeeks.com> <20030716164056.GU72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F14B809.8010005@swissgeeks.com>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:27:21AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > >From within FreeBSD: > >dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn > >replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named. > > Did it from my FBSD 5.1-C x86 machine. > It writed the 10240 bytes successfully but it's still not working on the > alpha :) Maybe you need to write more then count=1. I'm unshure about the exact bit pattern and position that causes this kind of problem. > It says "You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of screen)" As long as dd claimed to succed I think the blocks were written. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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