> > You will also, probably, find that netbsd will refuse to write
> > to the sector that is believes contains the netbsd disklabel.
> > This might be sector 0 if the disk doesn't have a netbsd partition.
> > The DIOCWLABEL ioctl will let you do the write...
> 
> I zero'd out a labeled disk before removing it just the other day,
> using the raw device. The in-core label is protected, but "dd" did
> actually write zeros to the disk, as evidenced by the label being
> absent after a reboot. It might not work with the block device.

Yes - dev/ata/wd.c doesn't call 'bounds_check_with_label' for
the RAW_PART.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk