[Sunhelp] "wrong magic number"

[Magnus Abrante]

The disk doesn't have a sun label, you should be able to set a sun label
with format.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */


> Hi I have just inherited a SS10 (with Solaris 2.5.1) with 2x 1.05GB HDDs in.
> When replacing drive 1 with a rather nice large IBM Ultrastar 18ES and
> booting I get the following error message:
> "corrupt label - wrong magic number"
> 
> It still boots OK but it doesn't seem to recognise the new HDD...
> 
> I have tried changing the SCSI ID a few times (I tried ID# 1, 2 and 6 the
> disk I am replacing was ID# 2 and drive 0 is ID#3) but to no avail. It seems
> that the label on the HDD is corrupted. Has anyone experienced this before?
> any idea what to do? is this an incompatibility problem with this HDD?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Simon Pratt
> simonp at kk.iij4u.or.jp
> 
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