Message-Id: <D5FED82EFF57D311AF7400805FBBF05501C5D78C@oakmail1.oakridge.saic.com> From: "McClanahan, David K" <DAVID.K.MCCLANAHAN@saic.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:27:29 -0700 Subject: Partitioning Seagate ST32171N for use in SPARC IPC
I am having trouble getting my IPC, and subsequently my SuSE 7.1 install, to
recognize a hand me down 2.16GB Seagate ST-32171N drive I am trying to load
SuSE on. This is an empty drive, except for the numerous and incomplete
SuSE installs I've attempted. This drive has 5 heads (3 disks), 5178 user
cylinders, 25890 tracks. There are an "average" of 102,500 bytes per track
and NO fixed number of sectors per track.
YaST2 version is 2.1.182
The fdisk program always asks for the number of sectors, which I have been
putting in using the average of 200. SuSE/YaST2 seems to hang-up during
"Formatting /dev/sda4 as /" at 89% complete. It can sit there for days!
Fdisk reports that the following partitions have been created, after it does
its own repartitioning, which I have tried to mimic before hand:
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 33 16500 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 u 33 294 130500 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 294 5176 2441000 83 Linux native
/dev/sda5 0 5176 2588000 5 Whole disk
This drive was formatted and a sun label was written with the following:
5 heads, 5176 cylinders, 2 spare cylinders, 200 sectors per track, 7200 RPM,
interleave of 1.
YaST2 thinks it has some 2.46GB of space, it should only have 2.16GB of user
space.
What am I doing wrong? Can this drive even be used with my IPC?
HELP!
David McClanahan
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