On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:51:42 +0200
jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz) wrote:

Litle update. I netbooted the machine and tried to nuke the existing
disklabel with dd(1):

# dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/rsd0c bs=3D1k count=3D16
dd: /dev/rsd0c: end of device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.016 secs (0 bytes/sec)

# dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sd0c bs=3D1k count=3D16
sd0: no disk label
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
16384 bytes transferred in 0.068 secs (240941 bytes/sec)

This is strange. (IMHO)
Why is the raw device "unusable"?
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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