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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net>
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Subject: Re: Adding second drive
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Michelle Brownsworth wrote:

> I added a second drive, an IDE to be used for backups, using disklabel -r
> -w wd0 auto, newfs /dev/rwd0c, and mount /dev/wd0.  The system issues the
> following complaint:
> 
> wd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic
> wd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic
> 
> I'm sure this is a common refrain for you guys.  After coming up empty with
> the Handbook and FAQ, I  searched the mailing list archives on this problem
> and got plenty of hits, messages posted by people having exactly the same
> problem as I am, but there were absolutely no messages with an answer.
> Zip.  Nada.  I'm forced to impose the question on you guys, so you can
> answer it for the eleventeenth time.

You must have missed the tutorials; my disk formatting docs are in there.
:)

> Oddly enough, I did the same disklabel, newfs, mount as above on a drive
> added to another server the other day and it was fine; no "invalid primary
> partition table: no magic" message.  Go figure.

That message is normal when creating disks; there's no primary partition
table to read.  I think this message has actually been disabled in
-current because of the confusion it causes.

You should be able to mount /dev/wd0c now.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major