Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: It seems that in the latest running around with things, disklabel -W doesn't seem to quite work, at least on the alpha- it seems to set the label writable, but the next attempt to open the disk sets the label area non-writable again. It hasn't quite

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Wow. Okay. On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: It seems that in the latest running around with things, disklabel -W doesn't seem to quite work, at least on the alpha- it seems to set the label writable, but the next attempt to open the disk

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:15:07 -0800 (PST), Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, what's the answer about what to do? exec 3/dev/xx0 dislabel -W xx0 spam /dev/xx0 exec 3- -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] | O

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Good, but like just having popcorn for dinner, somehow unsatisfying... On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:15:07 -0800 (PST), Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, what's the answer about what to do? exec 3/dev/xx0 dislabel -W xx0 spam /dev/xx0 exec

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread David O'Brien
It seems that in the latest running around with things, disklabel -W doesn't seem to quite work, at least on the alpha- it seems to set the This was the topic of my "Fscking disklabel crap" mail to freebsd-alpha on Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:56:59 -0800, which nobody responded to. -- -- David

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk contains a label. The underlying disk contains a label in the "dangerously dedicated

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Sorry- I missed it. I was in Kaui. On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: It seems that in the latest running around with things, disklabel -W doesn't seem to quite work, at least on the alpha- it seems to set the This was the topic of my "Fscking disklabel crap" mail to freebsd-alpha

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Bruce Evans
The reason I brought this all up is that XX0 access would not work for me. The disk had a dangerously dedicated label, but I wanted to overwrite the front of the disk. Impossible. I've noticed this also in the case where you have slices but want to go to a dangerously dedicated label- no

Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-05 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk How do we fix this problem? I keeps from from ``dd

disklabel -W now seems to not work(?)

1999-12-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
It seems that in the latest running around with things, disklabel -W doesn't seem to quite work, at least on the alpha- it seems to set the label writable, but the next attempt to open the disk sets the label area non-writable again. Before I go tracking this down as a bug, is it? Secondly,