Re: new 2mb SCSI hdd showing 0mb in Solaris2.5 install on Classic

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From: Cameron Simpson
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00

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Craig Dewick wrote:
> In <35ED97BC.4A8E@shl.com> Allen Rose <arose@shl.com> writes:
> >After installing a new 2gb internal hard drive in a SparcClassic, I
> >tried to install Solaris 2.5. All works fine until the partitioning
> >phase when the drive shows up as SCSI ID2, but the available space is
> >0mb.
> Usually the boot drive should be SCSI ID-3. However that shouldn't affect
> what it says about the available space. Maybe you'd like to try booting in
> single-user mode from the CD-ROM, then running the 'format' command to see
> what it can tell you about the drive when it's running on it's own.

You can run format on mounted, active drives anyway.
Just be damn sure not to write stuff back to the disc!

> I've done
> more disk installs into Classics, LX's, IPX's, etc to count, and I can't
> recall ever having a new disk show up as having zero capacity available...

This may be stating the obvious, but I don't suppose it already has
partitions
set up? It may be as simple as having 0mb left.

Run script, pull up format, print the partition table, quit, exit,
post the listing!

- Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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