According to Michael Joosten:
> This is with a ridiculously old disk (third party Sun shoebox, ESDI 180MB and
> Emulex SCSI-ESDI converter. Though I've to say that there was a label on that
> disk, albeit one from that mythical 'dump filesystem via dd' on the disk...
> So, it rather looks like some pecularities with the disk drive, then...
> On the other hand I just discovered that I still have that old rootimage and
> 'makedisk' in source... 3MB and 10KB gzipped.
> 
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Hmmm, sure looks like it works. My setup is a 345 with a C3725S 2Gb
spindle at target 0, and an MO at target 1. I boot from the MO, and
can choose neither the MO or the C3725S to disklabel. Interestingly,
the MO is a Sony SMO-650 that is intrinsically EDSI, and has a 
SCSI<->ESDI wart on it, too.

-mike

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