From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 09:54:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03201 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:54:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03157 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from izzy4.izzy.net (root@izzy4.izzy.net [198.108.102.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA03500 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from albert.TDFltd.com (stanny.izzy.net [198.108.50.131]) by izzy4.izzy.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA11116; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:18:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703271218.HAA11116@izzy4.izzy.net> From: "Gary Stanny" To: "BSD Questions" Cc: "Gary Stanny" Subject: "bad pack magic number" ? - on new SCSI drive install Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:18:07 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? TIA cheers gary Gary Stanny Tierra del Fuego Ltd. 313 449 8306 stanny@TDFltd.com Financial Software 313 449 8306 (fax/fax on demand) 7725 Shady Beach Drive Whitmore Lake, MI, 48189 USA