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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI prob: specific error
Date: 16 Nov 1995 11:27:02 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <48eg15$n18@news.service.uci.edu>,
Sam Sapoznick <ssapozni@mercury.sfsu.edu> wrote:
>I'm trying to get my 1.7gig Seagate ST42000N SCSI-2 disk and my BusLogic
>BT-545C SCSI controller to work with BSD 2.0.5.
>BSD recognizes the card, etc., etc., but when I try to label the disk, I get
>a "Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled" error
>. (Using the command "disklabel -B /dev/sd0")
You need to do a disklabel -w in there forst I believe..
>"Fdisk -u /dev/sd0" lets me specify various traits (cylinders, heads, sectors,
>etc.,) but when I attempt to write the changes to the disk, I get the following:
>"ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not permitted by device"
Ignore that error
I deleted it from the sources later.. it is not a fatal error.
the fdisk probably worked just fine..
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