On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon
> writes:
>> :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some
>> :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously
>> :dedicated mode.
>>
>> Yup.
>>
>> The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated
>> mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition?
>> Everything
>> I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal
>> freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it.
>
> After fdisk creating partitions try,
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16
>
> Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B
Nope, I tried that. Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create
a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period.
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