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From: Flipper Spice <flipper@lizard.org>
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Subject: no magic
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Jun  9 18:37:41 blinx /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
Jun  9 18:38:31 blinx /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic



after much struggling with manually editting a disklabel, which appears to work,
 I get this error. What is 'no magic'?


type: SCSI
disk: sd1s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 107
tracks/cylinder: 20
sectors/cylinder: 2140
cylinders: 3907
sectors/unit: 8399520
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

3 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:  4080980        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 1906)
  b:  4318540  4080980    4.2BSD     1024  8192     0   # (Cyl. 1907 - 3925*)
  c:  8399520        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 3925*)



Regards F.