I think the hp300 disk routines were recently changed to always
	set the raw partition to the whole disk - so precisely this type
	of problem could be avoided. I don't know if there is a more
	recent snapshot you could try...

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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Alexander Strauss wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've the following problem:
> 
> I started disklabel and entered the drive specific data. I entered no
> partitions for the disk, because I first wanted to do a new calculation
> for that. Before exiting disklabel I wrote the label to the disk.
> 
> Now, when I tried to call disklabel again to enter the partioning data,
> disklabel reported something like that:
> 
> enter disk to label: sd6
> cannot read partition (1,6,2,1)
> exiting
> SYS_INST>
> 
> So, how can I access the disk again to enter correct partitioning data ?
> Is there anyone who got in this situation, too ?
> 
> thanks, Alex
> 
> 
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