From: Teklu, Daniel (daniel.teklu@tfn.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 11:06:53 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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