Re: Unable to label a disk

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:59:44 GMT

David Kirkby wrote:
> I've been given a couple of Compaq 36GB disks, one of which I'd like to
> stick in in SS20.
>
> I stuck one in an SS20, started installing Solars, but it bombed out
> with a 'disk is not labeled' type message, and put me at the root prompt.
>
> I ran format, labeled the disk, then tried another attempt at
> installation, electing to do a manual reboot, rather than an auto reboot.
>
> Installation proceeded as normal, I set the size of the various
> partitions, the file systems were made etc. After the first CD was
> finished, I got the # prompt, with a message that I would need to insert
> the second CD after a reboot.
>
> However, after typing 'reboot' it gave a page or so of odd characters.
> df would not execute, and basically the system seemed pretty useless. So
> I got to the OK prompt, typed 'boot', but get a
>
> "Can't read disk label"
>
> error. I've since rebooted from the CD into single user mode, run format
> from the CD, labeled the disk (for a second time), but any attempt to
> reboot always gives a message about the disk not being labeled.
>
> Any ideas if it is possible to get around this problem? Format generates
> no error messages when labeling the disk, and will 'save' a format.dat
> file. This is in /var/tmp or similar on the CD, as I can do this with no
> OS on the disk.
>
> One of the disks may have been got at (the screws look a little
> damaged), but the second disk gives exactly the same problems.
>
> Any suggestions how I might get around this? I was thinking of putting a
> disk into an Ultra 60, trying to label it there, and then hope it works
> in the SS20. Not much to loose I guess, but if anyone has any other
> ideas, let me know.
>
> PS. This is a different SS20, and different disks, to the ones I
> mentioned under the thread 'Creating slices - I'm lost.' which
> coincidently seems to have got a disk with a corrupt label.
>
>
>
>
These are SCSI disks, right (since they're in an SS20)? I'd probably
try a low level format on them, preferably after checking the modes
page values. Perhaps they've got an odd sector size or something
else weird. 

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