[H-GEN] New HD in Sunblade 100

[Ian Pulsford]

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James McPherson wrote:
> 
> On 13 Apr 2002, 10:07:02 Robert Brockway wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Ian Pulsford wrote:
> > > Yes, I have heard that they are just Seagates in SunBlade 100s.  What I
> > > really wanted to know was whether I would have to do any thing to the
> > > OpenBIOS or run any proggies to make the new HD available for the
> > > machine and ready for Solaris installation, or do I just put it in and
> > > go?
> > I've never had to do anything special to a disk when putting it in a Sun
> > so I'm sure you'll be fine.
> > I believe the drive is new isn't it.  I'm not sure what the Prom would
> > make of a a PC style partition table but I'm sure it doesn't have one of
> > those :)
> 
> 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 (for multiple OSen) then just be
> careful about what you expect to see from Solaris' point of view.
> 
> What you need to ensure is that if you are going to devote the disk to 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).
> 
> Incidentally, if you're running solaris for x86, have a look at GAG - a
> freeware graphical bootloader http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm
> which I've been using with no issues for nearly two years.
> 
> > 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
> to set either master or slave -- I recall that you could get some interesting
> behaviour with ide devices if you used cable select - but I'm pretty sure
> that's been fixed by now....

Thanks. I'm too tired to put the new HD in tonight but I have a new
problem now anyway.  I downloaded the 2/02 Solaris ISOs but when I
unzipped it at home one had a bad CRC.  I was really hoping to install
the latest Solaris 8; does anyone have a burnt sol-8-u7-sparc-v1.iso
that I could possibly get a copy of tomorrow?


Ian

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