Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!ex-dcs!exua!JRowe From: JRowe@exua.exeter.ac.uk (John Rowe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Fujitsu 1.2Gb disk on Sun Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 19:50:18 GMT References: <1991May9.191941.2377@mprgate.mpr.ca> Sender: JRowe@exua.exeter.ac.uk Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK Lines: 19 In-reply-to: parker@mprgate.mpr.ca's message of 9 May 91 19:19:41 GMT In article <1991May9.191941.2377@mprgate.mpr.ca> parker@mprgate.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes: > I've set up a Fujitsu 2266 disk on a Sun SPARC 2 system, and > am experiencing some problems. > The numbers I've used to format the drive (on the advice of > Fujitsu) are: 1642 cylinders, 2 alternates, 15 heads, 85 > sectors. The disk logic can actually address 1658 cylinders > (plus alternates), but Sun's format chokes with that. > I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on the SPARC 2. Well, if it's worth anything my new Fujitsu 1.2 GB (can't find the model number off hand - sorry!) came formatted at 1653 2 15 85, I reformatted it with the same values on a Sparc 2 and it's been running on an IPC as its main drive for a month with no problems. Both running 4.1.1 John