Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 19:22:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net (mika ruohotie) Subject: Re: no magic Message-ID: <19970509192212.XP35729@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705091406.RAA01013@shadows.aeon.net>; from mika ruohotie on May 9, 1997 17:06:01 %2B0300 References: <199705091406.RAA01013@shadows.aeon.net>
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As mika ruohotie wrote: > uh, i did > > disklabel -rw sd3 auto Make this ``disklabel -Brw sd3 auto'', and you'll see the message only once. > disklabel -e sd3 > > for my new scsi drive as suggested on this list ages ago (i use 2.2-STABLE) > but now even though the drive works, it tells me: > > May 9 16:28:47 pluto /kernel: sd3: invalid primary partition table: no magic This is a useless message for many people, and should be hidden behind an #ifdef DEBUG (IMHO -- Bruce will certainly disagree :). It basically means your disk was `blank', and didn't have 0x55aa at the end of the very first sector. Since the slice code believes all disks must have slice (aka. fdisk) tables, it complains loudly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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