first entry in teh google overlord tracking machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 04:08:48PM +0100, Cesare Gargano wrote:
quoted text
> ok, so what does 0x4c means?
> 
> regards,
> c.
> 
> On 13/12/08 08:52 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > Crypto
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:42:27PM +0100, Cesare Gargano wrote:
> > > On 12/12/08 11:07 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > > It isn't pretty but:
> > > > dd if=/dev/wd1a skip=8244 bs=1 count=4 | hexdump -C
> > > > 4+0 records in
> > > > 4+0 records out
> > > > 4 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (3263 bytes/sec)
> > > > 00000000  41 00 00 00                                       |A...|
> > > > 00000004
> > > > 
> > > > wd1a is the cooked RAID partition.  In this case this is an AOE target.
> > > > If it was crypto it would have been 4c 00 00 00 |C...|
> > > > 
> > > > Currently the possible values are: 0x00 (RAID 0), 0x01 (RAID 1), 0x41
> > > > (AOE target), 0x4c (CRYPTO) & 0x61 (AOE initiator).
> > > > Note that softraid is not endian neutral so on big endian machines the
> > > > numbers are flipped.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > wd0i is my RAID partition:
> > > 
> > > .. $ dd if=/dev/wd0i skip=8244 bs=1 count=4 | hexdump -C
> > > 4+0 records in
> > > 4+0 records out
> > > 4 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (11799 bytes/sec)
> > > 00000000  43 00 00 00                                       |C...|
> > > 00000004
> > > .. $
> > > 
> > > what does 0x43 means?
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > c.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > FWIW,
> > > > /marco
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Michael wrote:
> > > > > Todd T. Fries schrieb:
> > > > > > tried 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 	bioctl -h softraid0
> > > > > > lately?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Well, yes... but it only works if I already activated the softraid device...
> > > > > 
> > > > > # bioctl -h softraid0
> > > > > Volume  Status               Size Device
> > > > > softraid0 0 Online               3.8G sd1     CRYPTO
> > > > >       0 Online               3.8G 0:0.0   noencl <sd0a>
> > > > > # bioctl -d sd1
> > > > > # bioctl -h softraid0
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...but I would like to know what kind of type sd0a is before I try to use
> > > > > 
> > > > > bioctl -c [01C] -l /dev/... softraid0
> > > > > 
> > > > > to be able to use bioctl from a script, only for CRYPTO.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Only other way I currently see is to set the label from disklabel of sd0
> > > > > to some name and check what to do from that information.