wrong magic number when installing solaris 8

[johndog]

Having a problem with the two HD's I'm using to install Solaris 8 on a Sparc 5 workstation. The errors I get are as follows: "Warning: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/
espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@1,0 -- (sd1): corrupt label -- wrong magic number"
It reports this error twice after booting from the solaris 8 installation cd (I assume that both HD's are recieving the same error). I don't know what the system is trying to tell me by "wrong magic number" or how to correct this problem. The HD's are both Seagate ST32171WC's connected to the SCSI bus. Any help on how to correct and troubleshoot this problem is appreciated.

 

[SamBones]

I believe this error message is just issued because these drives have never been partitioned or formatted by Solaris. When you do the install, when the drive partitions are laid out, a "label" will be written to the disk. This is a partition map, or vtoc, for the drive. Once this is done, you should stop getting these messages.

You can also do this manually via the format command. Run format, select a drive, select partition, define your partitions, then write the label. Then you can format your partitions, then exit format and create a file system on it using newfs.

Hope this helps.