[rescue] ultra 2 drive not recognised

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 00:02, Brian Howe wrote:
> Sounds like you need to put it in another system that understands multiple
> filesystems (linux, bsd, etc) and partition and format the drive for a file
> system that solaris might undersand.

Not sure I've had that problem under Solaris before... but
usually dd if=/dev/zero of=<disk device> bs=512 count=512
will wipe out the 'identity' of any fs on the drive.

-- Curt

> 
> On 5/10/05, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I got a drive I put in the ultra 2. probe-scsi-all shows the drive but
> > I cant install the OS on it. If I put a different drive in, setup the
> > OS and put that drive as secondary, it shows up under probe-scsi-all.
> > But when the OS boots I get this error:
> > Corrupt label; wrong magic number
> >
> > format doesn't see the drive.
> >
> > This was used on a non Sun machine before. It's an old seagate 80 pin
> > u160, 18gb.
> >
> > What do I have to do to the disk to get Solaris to recognise it at install
> > time?
> >
> > Francois
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