From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 13:14:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22767 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22762 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:14:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00629; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:13:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:13:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Stanny cc: BSD Questions Subject: Re: "bad pack magic number" ? - on new SCSI drive install In-Reply-To: <199703271218.HAA11116@izzy4.izzy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Gary Stanny wrote: > I am installing a new Seagate SCSI drive and disklabel is failing. > > disklabel -e sd0 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > > disklabel -r sd0 > Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) > > What is it telling me and what do I do next? I can't do a newfs > without a label can I? Ah, the first victim for my new make-a-disk tutorial! You're trying to make a dedicated disk. Take a look at http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html (no tilde on dwhite) If that doesn't work for you let me know. I checked it last night with a Seagate IDE disk and didn't have any problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major