[SPARCbook] Sparcbook ATA drive formatting

[Martin Wedel]

Disregard....  Next time I'll get some caffeine in my system and look
around some more before I ask....

btw, what's the largest hdd anyone has been able to use in their
sparcbook? I know tadpole sells a 12G, but is there any OBP limitation to
go above that?

Thanks!

--
Martin Wedel
sun at minor-element.net
http://www.minor-element.net/

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Martin Wedel sr wrote:

> Someone please clue me in on formatting an ATA drive.
> I try fdformat /dev/c1d0s0 and I get the error
> 
> fdformat: FDIOGCHAR failed, Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> The regular format command complains that it can't find a defect list, and
> that one isn't supported on the device. I'm runnong 2.6 with all the
> tadpole packages and patches, I can do a newfs on a previously formatted
> drive, I just can't seem to get the zen for a format. I am pretty
> sure that it's a syntax problem, but after fiddling with it for a
> while, I can't think straight anymore. Help!
> 
> --
> Martin Wedel
> sun at minor-element.net
> http://www.minor-element.net/
> 
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