From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 13:17:11 CEST
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:17:11 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20020808131711.A26515@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Add new Harddisk
On Thu, Aug 08, Joerg Reuter wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I add a new harddisk at the second IDE-Port from my Blade 100. I read in the
> blade-forum that I can use master/slave or cable select. I probe both but I
> have the same problem. At the ok-promp i type probe-ide and the blade found
> the new drive so I type boot -r. I start Suse-Linux and start yast2. Select
> Partitionieren and the Programm find the new disk with the win32-.Partition.
> I say the programm to delete it and add a 4 Gig-Partition. All right. I say
> ok and the Programm say it can't do it. So I start fdisk at console, it find
> the harddisk too, i erase the win32-partition and add the 4 Gig-Partition.
> Then I start the blade and there is no new partition, only the old
> win32-Partition. What is wrong?
Sounds like you need to change the disk label from MSDos to SUN.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=10
This should work if your new harddisk is hdb (else use the correct
device). After this, call fdisk.
Thorsten
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