[SunRescue] Using HP 2247....

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Fri Feb 11 11:44:34 CST 2000


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jeff wrote:

> enclosure with 4 2 gig HP drives in there (can't get PN's I'm at work
> now), and every time I hook it up to one of my Sparcs, I can probe it,
> but I can't format anything, just the dreaded 'bad magic number - can't
> read label' error.  I don't see how 4 drives could all be bad.  The

Silly question.  Have you tried going into format and writing a disk label
to the drives?

All "bad magic number" means is that it couldn't find a Sun style
partition table.

-James







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