[SPARCbook] SCSI/IDE converter and drive geometry

[Ken Hansen]

You want to label the drive, I think this is an option under format
(default label, write label). What OS are you running this under?

Solaris 2.6 installed just fine after I did some variation of the
above (can't recall right now)...

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hatle, Steven J." <shatle at vue.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>; <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:36 PM
Subject: [SPARCbook] SCSI/IDE converter and drive geometry


> Greetings,
>
> I received my latest Ebay score, an IBM 1 gig laptop HD, with an IDE/SCSI
> converter card. While I want to get a bigger drive eventually, I popped
the
> drive/converter into my Sparcbook caddy, and fired up a Solaris CD to try
> and see and format the drive.
>
> Format sees it, but complains that it doesn't know the drive geometry. (I
> can run analyze, etc.) So, do I use the parameters from the IDE drive, or
do
> I have to do some kind of gory conversion to something Solaris will
> understand- and if that's the case, how do I do it?
>
> More details later if necessary- people here are bugging me to go to
lunch!
> <grin>
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Steve Hatle
> NCS/VUE
> shatle at vue.com
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