r_dirosario@yahoo.com wrote:
> How do I use Solaris to write a Sun disk label on a non-Sun disk?
>
> I have a Sun Blade 1000 I got from ebay without a disk, and a Seagate
> ST336704FCV FC disk. In the past I would boot NetBSD or OpenBSD
> or put the disk in a NetBSD or OpenBSD system and use that to write
> a Sun disk label. But this is the only system I have at home with a
> FC disk
> interface, and I can't get NetBSD or OpenBSD to boot on this system,
> so
> I need to use Solaris.
>

good.

Have a look at ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun...ers/format.dat
as it gives some details of how to work out the geometry.

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Chris