[Sunhelp] PC disk in Sun

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ward at zilla.nu [mailto:ward at zilla.nu]
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:33 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] PC disk in Sun
> 
> While this is likely a FAQ, I can't find it anywhere.
> 
> I've got a stack of SCSI disks formerly used as PC disks.  
> When I try to use
> them on a Sun (SPARCBook, actually), I get lotsa errors about 
> inability to
> label, etc.  So, I fired up format and issued a format.  The 
> format completes
> without finding bad sectors, but still can't label and 
> complains about the TOC.
> It's not just the disk, as I've tried 3 of them so far.
> 
> How do I use 'em?

I usually grab a SPARC running linux and use the fdisk command that comes
with that.  There always other solutions...  You could run something like
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scsidisk bs=1k count=512', and that out to do a
good job of wiping out whatever is at the beginning of the drive, and format
should be able to create a new disklabel then.  There's also a program
called 'sfdisk' that supposed to be a lot better than the format command
that ships with Solaris.  I don't know where to find it off hand.
	Greg