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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:44 AM

Ok tell me again, as I know I have seen this discussed before.

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?

Thanks for answereing an old question, again..

Bill K7NOM

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:44 AM

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

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:44 AM

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

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