I just picked up a new (or used?) hard drive for my SPARC20 and installed
it.

Is there anything special I need to do? Format does not see the drive and on
boot up, I get a bad label - no magic number error for the drive.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Ron Hagerman

Phoenix wrote:

> I just picked up a new (or used?) hard drive for my SPARC20 and installed
> it.
>
> Is there anything special I need to do? Format does not see the drive and on
> boot up, I get a bad label - no magic number error for the drive.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Hagerman
>
>
Does probe-scsi in the OBP see it? If not, you may have a bad drive,
or it's not properly connected.

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:06:47 -0700
"Phoenix" <me@here.com> wrote:

> I just picked up a new (or used?) hard drive for my SPARC20 and installed
> it.
>
> Is there anything special I need to do? Format does not see the drive and
> on boot up, I get a bad label - no magic number error for the drive.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
>


halt machine
turn off machine
plugin drive
turn on machine
stop while it boots, prefered during memory initialization
boot -r from the ok
login once its up
run format

the bad label just means that no solaris partion table was found on the
drive, nothing serious.
to make the os see the drive it needs to be told to rebuild the hardware
devices.
The boot -r will do that, or since you have the drive already in place, and
if you run solaris 8 or newer, run devfsadm which will do the same thing on
the fly.
After that format can see the drive since the os knows its there.


--
Barbie - Prayers are like junkmail for Jesus

I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die.

Barbie LeVile wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:06:47 -0700
> "Phoenix" <me@here.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I just picked up a new (or used?) hard drive for my SPARC20 and installed
>>it.
>>
>>Is there anything special I need to do? Format does not see the drive and
>>on boot up, I get a bad label - no magic number error for the drive.
>>
>>Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
>>
>
>
>
> halt machine
> turn off machine
> plugin drive
> turn on machine
> stop while it boots, prefered during memory initialization
> boot -r from the ok
> login once its up
> run format
>
> the bad label just means that no solaris partion table was found on the
> drive, nothing serious.
> to make the os see the drive it needs to be told to rebuild the hardware
> devices.
> The boot -r will do that, or since you have the drive already in place, and
> if you run solaris 8 or newer, run devfsadm which will do the same thing on
> the fly.
> After that format can see the drive since the os knows its there.
>
>

No harm to throw in a reset-all before the boot -r also. It has helped
me in the past... (Or just reset for very old OBP)

In article <3F5EB467.3040608@prodigy.net>,
CJT <cheljuba@prodigy.net> did thusly spew forth:
>Phoenix wrote:
>
>> I just picked up a new (or used?) hard drive for my SPARC20 and installed
>> it.
>>
>> Is there anything special I need to do? Format does not see the drive and on
>> boot up, I get a bad label - no magic number error for the drive.
>>
>Does probe-scsi in the OBP see it? If not, you may have a bad drive,
>or it's not properly connected.

Well, if he's getting "magic number" errors, the OBP is seeing the drive and
attempting to query/identify it.

-tom