>Hello sun-managers
>
>We have a Sidus Sparc clone (cpu 4/60, I think this is a Sparc Station 1).
>
>It has the following peripherals attached to it.
>
>2 Micropolis 1598-15 1.2GB scsi disks (sd1, sd3).
>1 Exabyte 8500 scsi tape drive (st0).
>1 Sun cdrom play (sr0).
>
>Up until yesterday, the machine was running perfectly with SunOS 4.1.1
>generic kernal.
>
>When I tried to install SunOS 4.1.2 everything is okay until I run
>suninstall when it refuses to recognise the attached scsi disks.
Summary:
Many people responded to check the /dev directory for all the
[r]sd[*][a-h] entries.
They were all there so that was not the problem
The winning response came from
>From bennett@planet8.sp.unisys.com Tue Aug 18 23:25:18 1992
I was having the same problem tonight with my
Micropolis 1598-15 1.2GB scsi disks. Everything looked
fine until I got the the assigning the partition
infomation in suninstall.
My problem was that the partitions on all of my disks
had changed to all zeros (ie partition a starts in
cyl 0 and goes for 0 sectors, c starts in cyl 0 and goes
for 0 sectors, the same for all partitions.)
I fired up format and gave the C and h (free hog) partitions
a start at cyl 0 and go for 1931 cyls.
This worked after I fought with the problem for the last 5
hours. That's the last time someone else formats and
partition disks for me.
Good Luck
Dale Bennett
Sun Admin
Paramax - Eagan, MN
(612) 456-2085
One person actually pointed out there was a typo in my last summary for these
disks. I mistakenly swapped pcyl and ncyl in posting the summary but not
with actually formatting the drive. The correct working entry is:
disk_type = "Micropolis 1598-15" \
: ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 4 \
: cache = 0x11 : trks_zone = 15 : asect = 8 : atrks = 45 \
: ncyl = 1928 : acyl = 3 : pcyl = 1931 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 70 \
: rpm = 3600 : bpt = 41664
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pcyl = ncyl + acyl !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to all the following people who replied:
jdb@vesta.anu.edu.au
kjv@tampella.fi
manderso@mitre.org
bcook@Kodak.COM
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
mzd@aeg.dsto.gov.au
trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com
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