Re: problem installing IBM DGHS-18y

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:00

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Sik-Ping Wu <spwu@earthlink.net> writes:


>    I tried to install IBM DGHS-18Y, a 3.5" 18.2 G drive with SCA-2
>80-pin on a
>    Ultra 1/200E.

>    When I ran probe-scsi, the system recongized the drive, with SCSI-id
>= 0,
>    however, when I booted the system, it showed

>    "Bad magic number in disk label
>    Can't open disk label package."

>    and then eventually, the boot process died.

>    Is the Ultra 1/200E SCA-80 compatible with the drive? Bad disk
>drive? Any ideas?

Have you actually formatted the drive and installed something on it? Any new
disk which hasn't had any formatting, etc. done on it will usually produce
this error when something tried to read the disk label.

Regards,

Craig.

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Date: 2000/05/27
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