[Sunhelp] Re: "wrong magic number"

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Tue 2000-08-15 (19:22), Simon Pratt wrote:
> 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...

The machine *does* recognize the disk, but - as the message tells you,
there is no valid disk label on the disk. You will have to create one
using format

> 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.

When disks are delivered without passing some Sun aware instance :-)
there will be a test pattern on sector 0. So the magic number 0xdabe
is missing... 

  Has anyone experienced this before?

Yes, of course, every time I add a new disk

> any idea what to do? is this an incompatibility problem with this HDD?

format. RTFM&AB


Steffen, HTH
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