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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!irz401!uriah!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <27cfjuINNsmn@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <93255.205439AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bonnie.tcd-dresden.de 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). -- in real life: J"org Wunsch | ) o o | primary: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de above 1.8 MHz: DL 8 DTL | ) | | private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de | . * ) == | ``An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.''