Subject: Re: disklabel
To: Adam Ciarcinski <adam@pulstar.albedo.art.pl>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/09/2000 22:16:29
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
> When I connect PC-FAT disk to Amiga, I cannot change it's label.
> The command
>   disklabel -R <disk> <protofile>
> I get
>   ...label magic nuber wrong on kernel out of data...
> or something like that.
> 
> Any suggestions?

floppy disks dont have labels. No partitions.

the pseudo-"partitios" you see (fd0a fd0b) are really only ways to switch
the track encoding.

the label you see when reading is a pseudo-inkernel-label created by the
kernel.

	-is