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[Mat Maessen]

> I am replacing the original 2G IDE drive with the IBM DADA-26480
> 6.4G IDE drive.  When I tried to installed the solaris 2.6 by cdrom,
> it showed that it is
> 
> ADTX-AXSITS5324011D-AD60 cy 13422 alt 2 hd 15 sec 63
> 
> But I cannot label the drive, it gave me the following error message:
> 
> Warning: error setting drive geometry
> Warning: error writing VTOC
> Warning: no backup labels
> Write label failed

OK, that's understandable, since the drive isn't in /etc/format.dat

> Then, I tried to label the drive after I get into the "format" mode.
> 
> I enter the followings:
> 
> name of data cyclinders: 13420
> name of alternate cyclinder[2]: y
> name of physical cyclinder:[13422]:y
> number of heads: 16
> physical number of heads [defaults]: y
> number of data sector/track: 63
> physical sectors/track[defaults]: y
> rpm of drive[3600]: 4200
> format time[defaults]: y
> track skew [defaults]: y
> tracks per zone [defaults]: 4
> alternate tracks [defaults]: y
> cache control [defaults]: y
> prefetch threshold [defaults]: y
> minimum prefetch [defaults]: y
> maximium prefetch [defaults]: y
> disk name: DADA-26480

Try it again, but press enter instead of "y". If you can't set it within the
format command, edit /etc/format.dat, and follow the examples of the disks
already in there.

-Mat