[SunRescue] Disklabel Problem

emp7 at cornell.edu emp7 at cornell.edu
Thu Apr 13 13:38:19 CDT 2000


So, on a lark, I decided to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my Sparc 10.  It was 
nifty, but overly slow, so I decided to move back to Solaris.  And when I 
tried to load Solaris, it complained that it couldn't understand the 
disklabel.  No problem, I thought.  I'll just boot up linux and build a 
new disklabel during the installation process.  Well, the disklabel tool 
doesn't know what to put into a HP D2076B scsi disk.

So, does anyone know what values I should manually enter to build the sun 
disklabel (heads, sectors/track, cylinders, alternate cylinders, physical 
cylinders, rotation speed, interleave factor and extra sectors per 
cylinder?) or where I should look to find such values?  I tried searching 
on the HP web site, four or five general Web searches and still, no dice.

Thanks a bunch for any suggestions,

--eric
...almost, but not quite, sick of computers...





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