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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