On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:21:29PM -0500, Pangrazio, Robert Thomas (UMR-Student) wrote:
> About two weeks ago I downloaded current to get a PCI IDE card to work. Now, when I execute
>  
> disklabel -i -I wd0
>  
> where wd0 is my drive and a create a partition a which fills the whole drive I get this error
>  
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFOL Label magic number or checksum is wrong!
> (disklabel or kernel is out of date?)
> Label not written
>  
> I am pretty good with most unix stuff but I have no clue how to fix this. Am I wrong in thinking that since I downloaded current that nothing should be out of date. I don't know what a label magic number is so I don't know if it is wrong.

I have never tried this on a mac, but maybe the output of

pdisk -l wd0
disklabel -t wd0

would be useful to see..

Cheers,

Patrick