Subject: Re: HP-IB drives forgetting partition table
To: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 06/10/1996 01:22:19 
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Wes Brown wrote:

> Is there some trick with the partition tables?  I will "disklabel" a
> hp7958B with what I think is the correct information, but then after I
> write the information and reboot, the drive has forgotten.

I often have to disklabel the disk twice.  Verify that you have written
the label with "disklabel -r rd0" (or whichever disk...)

--scott