SUMMARY: adding IDE hard drive

From: Teklu, Daniel <daniel.teklu_at_tfn.com>
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 11:06:25 EDT
Thanks to all who respoded. 

First , we can only use max. 32 Gigs on Solaris 7. So the solution was:

1) rejumper drive in "32GB clip" mode.
2) dd if=/dev/zero bs=1b count=16 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
3) format c0t1d0

and I got 32 Gigs out of it. Which is more than enough for us.

Thanks
Daniel



>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Teklu, Daniel  
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:49 PM
> To:	'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	adding IDE hard drive
> 
> We added a 40 Gig IDE harddrive to a Sun Ultra 10 and we keep getting this
> error
> 
> corrupt label - wrong magic number
> WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
> 
> and at first format sees it as 40 Gig but when we list the partitions..it
> shows it as 5.77 Gigs.
> 
> server-1 >format
> Searching for disks...done
> 
> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>        0. c0t0d0 <ST39120A cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
>           /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0
>        1. c0t1d0 <ST340014A cyl 12007 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
>           /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0
> Specify disk (enter its number): 1
> 
> partition> pr
> Current partition table (original):
> Total disk cylinders available: 12007 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
> 
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>   0 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   2     backup    wu       0 - 12006        5.77GB    (12007/0/0) 12103056
>   3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
> 
> partition> 
> 
> Any idea why?
> Thanks
> 
> -Daniel
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