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Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net> writes:
"rdoherty@viewlogic.com writes:
"
">Attempting to install the above Quantum disk (4.3G) on a Sparcstation 2 running
">Sunos 4.1.3.
"
">I create one partition (c) using the entire disk (3850/0/0).
"
">When running newfs, it fails after writing a long list of alternate superblocks.  Specifically,
">after writing backup superblock 4188320, it reports: "seek error 422344, wtfs: Error 0".

it's not the superblocks per se that are failing; it's formatting the
disk and writing the superblocks as it goes.

"The main problem is your partition size. SunOS 4.1.3  is looking for a 
"maximum size of 2 GB. A work-around is to make several partitions on this 
"disk. Another alternative is the Online DiskSuite package available from 
"SunSoft.

with ods, you still have to make <2G partitions; you can concatenate
them into a large fs.

"The 7200 rpm question is interesting. Solaris 2.x newfs accepts the 7200 rpm 
"parameter without balking. I wonder how much difference it makes in real 
"world filesystem performance?

idiosyncrasy of sunos4 newfs:  it accepts 7200 in format.dat but not
interactively.

get scsiinfo from an archive site.  it can read a scsi drive and spit
out a simple format.dat you can use with newfs.
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