Re: Unable to create a newfs

From: Sun Student (studentofsun@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 15:57:08 EST


Hi Gurus,

My Bad..

I had number of heads set at 255 rather than 255. Moreover I was not
labeling the disk after making the changes.

Its working fine.

Thanks a lot to all for your help.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:38:37 -0500, Sun Student <studentofsun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>
> I have attached a new 3310 SCSI Disk Array to a Sun Netra 20 Server.
> When I do a format, I can see the disk array:
>
> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
> 0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w210000008712654a,0
> 1. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w210000008711e392,0
> 2. c3t0d0 <SUN-StorEdge3310-0325 cyl 8785 alt 2 hd 255 sec 255>
> /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@4/sd@0,0
>
> I have modified the controller to set the cylinder/head/sector
> settings for big filesystems.
>
> When I try to create filesystem using newfs, it gives me this error. I
> am trying to create a filesystem on slice 0 of size 50Gb.
>
> newfs /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0
> newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0: (y/n)? y
> There is no block size that can support this disk
>
> Please Help.
>
> Thanks
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