[SunHELP] New disk installed not recognized by Solaris 7

[Ido Dubrawsky]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:39:57AM -0400, Andre' Blanchard wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> Probably stating the obvious but just in case:
> 
> On your working system, edit your /etc/format.dat file to include an entry
> for this new disk (Use one of the other entries as a template; replace the
> drive specs with the ones for your new disk.  Then run the format command.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Regards:

Yep, tried that...didn't help.  I also entered the disk geomoetry manually 
through format and about 20 minutes into the low level format it bailed.  As
I said, the solution was to put the disk into a Linux box, format it there and
then reformat it under Solaris.  That did the trick.

Ido
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