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Gentlemen,

I am trying to add an external 2.1GB Quantum Grand Prix SCSI-3
(not wide, not wide differential) hard drive to a Sparc 20
running Solaris 2.3.  This drive is recognized but not accepted
upon bootup.  The boot sequence error when this drive is
encountered is

        corrupt label - wrong magic number

Has anyone seen this problem before?

Some particulars are:
[ ] the Sparc has only one SCSI bus
[ ] there are two internal hard drives, with target IDs one (1)
    and three (3)
[ ] there is an internal CD-ROM, with target ID six (6)
[ ] there is no format.dat entry for the Quantum Grand Prix,
    but I don't see how that could affect us at boot time.
[ ] existing internal drives are wide differential SCSI, while
    the one I am trying to add externally is a plain-old SCSI-3
    drive.

All constructive thoughts are appreciated.

Thank you,

Bruce
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Bruce R Larson

Bruce> Gentlemen, I am trying to add an external 2.1GB Quantum Grand
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Bruce>       corrupt label - wrong magic number

Bruce> Has anyone seen this problem before?

Yes :-) Check out the format utility . This schould help.
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