Subject: Re: disklabel problem
To: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 04/07/1997 10:56:24
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:50:30 -0400 (EDT)
Wes Brown <wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote:
> Try this. It has worked for me. Assuming that your first SCSI Disk is
> working with a label on it.
> dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c count=3
>
> Now you can `disklabel -e -r /dev/rsd1c`
> Just suck in the label that you want from a file once you get into the
> editor.
...this is a kludge. The right thing to do would be to fix the bug in
the hp300 kernel disklabel code that causes it to fail. I have been
unable to reproduce this so far, but I plan on taking a look at it this
week.
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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