clearing a drive

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:11:54 -0400
"dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear.
>     Whenever i
> try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does
> not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system
> utilities. I've tried:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1
> and various combinations thereof, without success. Normally running
> sysinstall will work, but in this case it is saying an error
> occurred writing partition information to drive ad1, and not
> allowing me to proceed.
>     This is on a 5.2.1 box.

No clue, but try the current mailing list and archive. Sounds like a
hardware problem to me. Bad drive or the like. Still possible a bug in
5.2.1.