Anthony Mandic wrote:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > I have a hard drive that probe-scsi can see but format doesn't.
> > The boot process says "bad magic number"
> >
> > How do I get format to format this disk and label it?
>
> Its not clear if you have one issue or two. If it doesn't
> show up in the list of disks that format presents you need
> to run devfsadm (if you are on Solaris 7 or later) or do a
> reconfiguration reboot (or the other old way) to have the
> disk added. To fix the bad magic number problem you need to
> relabel the disk (you do this from format).
>
> -am © 2003

Thanks for the info I tried reboot -r but when I tried the second time
that fixed the problem. format saw the drive and I labelled it and then
format worked normally..

Thanks for the info, It turns out I tried to do it correctly but made
some
mistake in the process.

Bill K7NOM