[H-GEN] New HD in Sunblade 100

[Robert Brockway]

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On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, James McPherson wrote:

> Run solaris' fdisk over the disk to setup the partitioning correctly
> before getting stuck into /usr/sbin/format to setup the slices. You
> cannot really make use of more than one partition on a disk (scsi or
> ide) due to some issues with the way Solaris handles partitions (as
> opposed to slices) on a disk, so you if want to have multiple partitions

Just to clarify for those reading along, the slices that James is
referring to here are equivalent to partitions in Linux-speak (ie, you
put filesystems in slices under Solaris). The Solaris partitions are
lower level again.

I believe FreeBSD also uses a partition/slice structure and I think it is
great.

And /usr/sbin/format under Solaris does the tasks you would use fdisk for
under Linux (actually it does alot more than that).  Everyone confused
yet? Good ;)

> What you need to ensure is that if you are going to devote the disk to

Ditto here.  Let Solaris own the disk :)

> Solaris (my _strong_ recommendation based on personal experience!) then
> you wipe the partition table clean with fdisk and then ensure that
> cylinders 8 and 9 on the disk are as per my c1d0p0 disk (see the
> format.out file and the others which I've attached).

I'm suspecting the original poster probably won't need to go to this
trouble.  The new disk should already have a single partition on it (I
would expect).

> > If you're interested you could probe-scsi from the Prom once the drive was
> > in (before booting from Cdrom) to see it in place.
> 
> actually, that's "probe-ide" from the OBP's ok> prompt. If you have a scsi
> device then you'd use "probe-scsi-all" instead. Also, ensure you use a jumper

Ah, thanks.  I had a nagging doubt I'd got that slightly wrong.
Cheers,
	-Rob

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