Subject: Re: disk drive problems
To: Kirk Boston (bs ifsm) <kbosto1@gl.umbc.edu>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/18/1996 11:27:17
On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Kirk Boston (bs ifsm) wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> it seems to run alright after that but when I try to fsck the drive in
> the unix side and run fsck on the new disk I get an error
> *** sd1a
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> sd1a: NOT LABLED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unknown)
>
> Well What now gang...


I'm going to go a little bit out on a limb and ask two questions:

1.  When you created it, you did create it as a root or root&usr
partition, right?
2.  You don't have another A/UX type partition earlier on the disk,
right?

Those are my only guesses offhand.

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