Subject: problem writing disk label
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/07/1998 03:52:37
i'm trying to run disklabel on a sparc 1.  the disk is a cfp2105s.  my 
label looks like:

# /dev/rsd2c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Conner CFP2105
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 106
tracks/cylinder: 10
sectors/cylinder: 1060
cylinders: 3948
total sectors: 4184880
rpm: 5400
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 2  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

4 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   65712         0     4.2BSD   1024  8192     16     #
  b:   131424    65712     swap
  c:   4184880       0     unknown                        #
  d:   3987744  197136     4.2BSD    1024  8192  16

and my command looks like:

disklabel -R -r  /dev/rsd2c  /etc/disklabels/cfp2015
or
disklabel -R -B -b /usr/mdec/boot /dev/rsd2c  /etc/disklabels/cfp2015

and i get

disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Label magic number or checksum is wrong!
(disklabel or kernel is out of date?)

and this is
NetBSD 1.3.1 (GENERIC)

what's wrong? thanks!

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Steve Farrell