[SPARCbook] "Error writing VTOC"

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:52:36PM -0500, Keith Howick wrote:
> Woo-Hoo!
> As it turns out the dd command wasn't doing anything. using "if=/dev/null"
> caused no blocks to be read or written. On a whim I attempted,
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0 bs=1024 count=100
> which wrote the 100 blocks and suddenly format knows the external HD is a
> seagate again!
> Thanks!
> -Keith

You can also use /dev/zero.

Bill

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