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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:13:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Stanny <stanny@TDFltd.com>
Cc:        BSD Questions <freeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "bad pack magic number" ? -  on new SCSI drive install 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970327131056.614A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199703271218.HAA11116@izzy4.izzy.net>

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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




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