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[sunder]

Ian Spray wrote:
> 
> I can't be sure this is the problem, but sometimes a drive that has been
> formatted for DOS gets disk label problems.  Try going into format, then
> analyze, and then purge.  You can run it over the whole drive, but you do
> need to destroy the contents of the first few and last few cylinders (the
> existing label, and the backup label (if any)).

Yup, this is EXACTLY the problem.  The 2" disks ship with a FAT parition
table which to solaris is greek. :)  What's strange is that the format command
won't just let you label the disk.  You do have to do a low level format
(the destructive analyze command) and it does take a long time to do.

But after that, you will be able to label the disk.

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