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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help!!
Date: 23 Jun 1996 15:46:45 GMT
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Thanva Khouvongsavanh <thanva@shoreland.com> wrote:

> I am getting an error when I try to mount my SCSI disk.
> 
> The Error is : sd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic

It's a warning only.  It happens when the slice code sees a disk where
the first sector doesn't end up in 0x55aa.

You can write a bootstrap to the disk, which will also dump a faked
fdisk table there, so the warning will stop.  This is done with

	disklabel -B sd0

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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