Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:35:55 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111160803040.1526-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] extra IDE drives, and Ultra-10's
At Fri, 16 Nov 2001 it looks like Holzrichter, Bruce composed:
bruce.->I think this from Bruce Forsberg's article in Linux Gazzette that he
bruce.->forwarded may be relevant.
bruce.->
bruce.->"I found out later by surfing the Internet that when one uses a non-Solaris
bruce.->disk one needs to run the fdisk utility and create a Solaris disk label on
bruce.->the disk. It also went on to say that this label is stored in the first
bruce.->partition on that hard drive so the first partition can't be a Linux swap
bruce.->partition since it will not reserve space for this label. "
bruce.->
bruce.->Hope this helps,
bruce.->Bruce H.
bruce.->
Thanks Bruce,
I've now got two drives in there and running for the time being, I
put in the original Seagate that came with the unit (4.3 gig) as the
primary_master and rigged the second drive in there as the
primary_slave and both drives show up in Linux with the command
fdisk -l and I see the first drive has the (Sun disk label) on it.
[root@ultra10 /root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 r 1 55 25515 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 u 56 610 261765 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 611 8892 3912772+ 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 59556 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
When doing "fdisk /dev/hdb" and choosing "m" for menu I get a menu
that shows an option "s"
Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)
When I choose the option "s" I get the following choices and I'm not
seeing one that matches the one listed on my "fdisk -l" output, here
are the options:
Command (m for help): s Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will
remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that,
of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Drive type
? auto configure
0 custom (with hardware detected defaults)
a Quantum ProDrive 80S
b Quantum ProDrive 105S
c CDC Wren IV 94171-344
d SUN0104
e SUN0207
f SUN0327
g SUN0340
h SUN0424
i SUN0535
j SUN0669
k SUN1.0G
l SUN1.05
m SUN1.3G
n SUN2.1G
o IOMEGA Jaz
Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom):
Can anyone shed any light on these choices here, thanks.
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