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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disktab for JAZ drive?
Date: 23 Apr 1997 21:40:34 GMT
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jedi@best.com (Jay Martel) wrote:
> darkside: {8} disklabel -w sd2 auto
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk;
Naturally.
> use "disklabel -r" to install initial label
> darkside: {9} disklabel -r sd2
> disklabel: /dev/rsd2c: Undefined error: 0
> darkside: {10} disklabel -r -w sd2 auto
> disklabel: /dev/rsd2c: Undefined error: 0
The latter is the correct command (although you should add -B to avoid
a useless ``No primary partition table'' warning later). Anyway, i
think you need to destroy the previous fdisk table first in order to
get `disklabel auto' to work on it:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2 count=100
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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