Message-Id: <D5FED82EFF57D311AF7400805FBBF05501C5DA56@oakmail1.oakridge.saic.com> From: "McClanahan, David K" <DAVID.K.MCCLANAHAN@saic.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:04:26 -0700 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Partitioning Seagate ST32171N for use in SPARC IPC
I have tried that, and it has made no difference. The formatting still just
sits there on 89%. I've also tried another drive, 2.17GB Fujitsu M2915SAU,
and have the same partitioning issues, this drive has 15 heads, 3018
cylinders, and NO FIXED NUMBER OF SECTORS WHEN PERFORMING FDISK
PARTITIONING. The Fujitsu drive gets to 94% complete, the Seagate to 89%,
before it hangs.
When using FDISK and creating a Sun label, what do I put as the number of
sectors when each drive has a variable number, that depends on which track
the head is on, but FDISK wants you to put in a number of sectors.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Landwehr [mailto:landwehr@imsdd.fhg.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:15 AM
To: McClanahan, David K
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Partitioning Seagate ST32171N for use in SPARC
IPC
re-partition /dev/sda3 with Id 5 (whole disk, cyl 0-5176) and try it
again.
Regards, Matthias
"McClanahan, David K" wrote:
>
> 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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