Last week I wrote:
>
> Hello managers,
>
> I'm in the process of putting some disks on an alpha that were formerly
> on a DEC 5000 system. I'm NOT interested in saving any of the
> information on the disks - I just want to use them as new and repartition the
m,
> etc. However, when I try and run disklabel, I get the following
> error:
>
> Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
>
> The disks are RZ56, RZ57, and RZ58, and I'm using OSF/1 3.0B on a
> couple of AXP 3000 - M300X systems.
>
> One interesting note: If I want to use the whole disk, I can newfs the
> "c" partition, no problem. But I'd like to be able to use disklabel
> to repartition.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> jorgy
>
>
>
> Eric R. Jorgensen internet: jorgy_at_Colorado.EDU
> University of Colorado, Boulder bitnet: jorgy_at_colorado.BITNET
> "A lot of people may not know this, but I'm pretty famous." -- Sam on Cheers
The answer is to use the "-rw" argument to disklabel. I thought that
in all of my many incantations of disklabel I had done this, but I
hadn't.
One other note: according to some folks from digital, RZ57s aren't
supported unless they have the latest firmware installed.
Thanks to:
Anthony D'Atri <aad_at_statsci.com>
Don Wilkerson <don_at_tripath.colosys.net>
Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646 <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Helgi Viggosson <helgi_at_ott.is>
Ilja Hallberg <hallberg_at_elixir.e.kth.se>
Jay Maynard <jmaynard_at_admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
Jim Belonis <belonis_at_galileo.phys.washington.edu>
Jim Johnson - UniPrise Systems - 617.229.1105 <jj_at_uniprise.com>
Matthias Schlett <Schlett_at_fz-rossendorf.de>
Paul E. Rockwell <rockwell_at_rch.dec.com>
Peter Stern <CFSTERN_at_WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Richard Rogers <cstrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk>
Selden E Ball Jr <SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU>
The good guys NEED the bad guys <gar_at_teach.enet.dec.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.)
golden_at_falcon.invincible.com
hicks_at_rtp.dec.com (Tim Hicks)
jacy_at_fluid.mro.dec.com
lemke_at_MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM (Kennedy Lemke)
linda_at_ecvax2.ecn.missouri.edu (Linda Valentine)
olle_at_cb.uu.se (Olle Eriksson)
rwa_at_cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
Eric R. Jorgensen internet: jorgy_at_Colorado.EDU
University of Colorado, Boulder bitnet: jorgy_at_colorado.BITNET
"A lot of people may not know this, but I'm pretty famous." -- Sam on Cheers
Received on Thu Jun 01 1995 - 22:55:05 NZST