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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do you set the thickflag on the 3c503?
Date: 17 Sep 1993 15:55:10 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH Dresden, Germany
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In <93255.205439AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu> Karll the Ghoull <AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> 2. After formating the drive, the partition info is still there.
> 3. How do I blow away all partition information on the 80meg drive
> and mount it under the /usr directory and map out the bad
> sectors.
Try
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1d bs=512 count=1
If /dev/zero doesn't exist, you should mknod it. Its major # is identical
to /dev/mem or /dev/null, the minor # is 12 (i hope - at least in 386BSD).
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