Thanks for prompt and explicit responses. I suspect that I'll get lots
more replies - the list below are the "overnight" responses which all
state that this is a known problem and is fixed by patch
Patch-ID# 100474-01
Keywords: format 1.3 Gigabyte disk
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.2: Assertion Failure on 1.3GB Elite Drive
Date: 16/Jan/92
The patch replaces the dud 'format' program that was released for sun4 kvm
with one that works for disks >1Gb.
My original query stated that I got this assertion failure on entering
'format' and selecting a 2.0Gbyte SCSI disk on a 4/470, although I had no
trouble doing this on an IPX.
Thanks to...
Dan Butzer <butzer@com.cranel>
sdo@gov.nasa.larc.phoebus (Sharon O. Beskenis)
shamash@com.boxhill (Ari Shamash)
daniel@CA.Qc.Hydro.CANR (Daniel Hurtubise)
Ken Nawyn <ken@com.nynexst>
Bob Dowling <rjd4@uk.ac.cam.cus>
"David S. Comay" <dsc@GOV.CSS.seismo>
kevin%ups@COM.Sun.Aus.fourx
John Luke <jluke@AU.OZ.deakin>
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