[SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

try

dd if=<some large file> of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

This should overwrite the label info (works on SCSI disks, never tried on
IDE)

Alternatively initialise the disk on a PC and then move back to Sun.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Shahid Shahzad-W5106C
Sent: 05 December 2001 16:28
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question


I tried to install Solaris 2.6 on the disk first but it didnot recognize the
correct size so I installed Solaris8 but no luck with Solaris8 also??? How
can I distroy and re-label the disk? Any help will appreciated.
Thanks,
Shahzad


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:gonufer at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:31 PM
To: Shahid Shahzad-W5106C
Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question


On 12/04/01 04:12 PM, Shahid Shahzad-W5106C wrote:

> I used Solaris 8 4/01 version....


Did you previously label the disk with an older version?  If so you need
to destroy the label before you can re-label the disk on a newer version
of Solaris so that it's the correct size.

You originally asked about Solaris 2.6 so I suspect you may have labeled
the disk there which limited it to 8GB.  A valid label, even if it's
wrong and doesn't describe the entire disk, will be honored by newer
versions of the OS.  That's why it needs to be destroyed and a new label
written.

-greg




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