der Mouse quoted:
> 
> [I've added port-sparc bceause this is a sparc/hp300 cross-port issue.]
> 
> > yesterday I tried to use my ZIP drive ( SCSI of course ) to bring the
> > NetBSD-1.2 dist. home to my hp.  I thought about disklabeling it on
> > the hp and then later at the university use it on a SPARC IPX running
> > netbsd 1.1.  first thing: the sparc didn't see the disklabel.
> 
Er, in the context of the original question; why not just use 'tar' to
write to the raw device?

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Mike Smith  *BSD hack  Unix hardware collector
The question "why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical"
invites the trivial response "because we define as fundamental those
laws which are mathematical".  Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_