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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help! disklabeling a Micropolis ESDI drive
Message-ID: <C6H7zB.642@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 4 May 93 00:28:22 GMT
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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I am thoroughly confused. I have tried to label my new Micropolis
1664-7 ESDI drive and can't seem to get past the following error
message:
disklabel: /dev/rwd1d: Invalid argument
the following message is also logged (to the console):
wd1: cannot find label (no disk label)
Now, granted, there is not _yet_ a label on this disk. That's what
I am attempting to accomplish! The command that I have executed is:
disklabel -w -r wd1 M16647B
(the M16647B happens to be what I named the disktab entry for this
drive)
Note some history: I had another ESDI drive on this system (a Maxtor
XT4380E) that this one is to replace. Also, disk 0 is another Maxtor
XT4380E.
I truely don't understand what is going on here. From what I have read,
the -r flag is supposed to allow one to create a label on a previously
unlabelled disk. (This has worked for me before, just yesterday on a
different system with IDE drives on it, as a matter of fact). I can't
help but feel that I have missed something terribly obvious here. Any
pointers or help would be greatly appreciated. What dumb thing am I
doing (or neglecting to do) that would make this so difficult?
Thanks in advance,
--
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