From: Witvliet, Hans (Hans.Witvliet_at_Alcatel.nl)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 11:33:10 CEST
Message-ID: <03273D4BC7F4D511AC440008C7E6F881542503@nlntmail2b.ats.nld.alcatel.nl> From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:33:10 +0200 Subject: RE: Re[2]: [suse-sparc] problem with harddisks
Glad to hear i could help,
BTW, as your drive is large enough to contain it, you might try Open Office.
Yesterday i read on the aurora-sparc-list that somebody was able to compile
(and use) Open Office for linux@sparc...
Hans
-----Original Message-----
From: C.Alsche [mailto:sparc@alscher.org]
Sent: donderdag 22 mei 2003 11:25
To: Witvliet, Hans
Subject: Re[2]: [suse-sparc] problem with harddisks
Hello Hans,
Thursday, May 22, 2003, 10:07:20 AM, you wrote:
WH> Hi,
WH> Sorry for asking the obvious....
WH> At the time the sparc20 were in production, the largest disks were
4.3GB, so
WH> there are no sun disklabels for larger drives.
WH> What i had to do, was, getting the drive exact geometry (platters,
WH> cylinders, rpm, sectors/cylinders, etc etc) from the disc-manufacturers
WH> site.
WH> Use these values when doing fdisk, and create your own disklabel.
thank you for your help... I created the label and now i can work with
the disk..
thank you...
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