Re: [suse-sparc] extra IDE drives, and Ultra-10's

From: Bill Schoolcraft (bill@wiliweld.com)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 21:37:43 PST

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    Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:37:43 -0800 (PST)
    From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
    Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111152130200.898-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] extra IDE drives, and Ultra-10's
    

    At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 it looks like Bruce Forsberg composed:

    forsbe->I have a Ultra 5 which I think is similar to the Ultra 10 in that they
    forsbe->are both PCI based. I removed the existing 4.3 GB drive and replaced it
    forsbe->with a 20GB WD 7200 IDE RPM Drive. It works fine for me. I have dual
    forsbe->boot
    forsbe->with both Solaris 8 and SuSe Linux 7.1. You can see the detail steps
    forsbe->at www.linuxgazette.com. Look in the November issue. I wrote about
    forsbe->my experiences.
    forsbe->
    forsbe->Hope this helps,
    forsbe->Bruce Forsberg

    Thanks, just read the article and just put a 30-gig maxtor in my bag
    to take to work tomorrow and I'll see how it goes.

    I am a bit confused as to the statement below that came from the
    article. I haven't had to do that with Solaris and the terms
    "backup_label" and "zero_out" ? Are we referring to putting a "type"
    on the partition(s) as in the "t" option in Linux's fdisk ? And
    the "zero_out" draws a blank from me, could you comment on this in
    "Linux" terms ? Thanks

    ##########
    I had to enter format and create a backup label on the third
    partition (#2) and zero out all the others and label this
    to the hard drive. After this I restarted the Solaris 8 install and
    it went fine.
    ##########

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