Re: bcwipe won't wipe a block device...

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:40:12 -0800
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> 
> I understand how devfs works, and i don't think that is the problem,
> although perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
> 
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/da0
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0
> 
> these devices and nodes all exist, and these dd commands do as expected
> and take off writing random data to the raw device.  However i get the
> errors mentioned previously when i try to use bcwipe on the same drives. 
> I would like to find a way to make bcwipe work.  any suggestions about
> what is causing this problem?

Use ktrace or truss to see if bcwipe is actually opening /dev/da0
or /dev/rda0 or /dev/da0c.

-- 
Steve
Received on Thu Feb 19 2004 - 11:40:37 UTC

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