Re: does ultra-1 take 18G hard drive?

From: Doug McIntyre (merlyn_at_visi.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 16:51:10 GMT

dave_au <dave_au_member@newsguy.com> writes:
>I bought a fujisu 18 G hard drive and would like to install it on my ultra-1,
>but the ultra-1 doesn't recognize the drive (showed up as 0MB). whne the ultra-1
>booted up, there was a warning message:

>WARNING: /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0 (sd0):
> Corrupt label; wrong magic number

>does anyone here have any ideas on this?

The corrupt label; wrong magic number means that the disk hasn't been
labelled yet. Have you labelled it?

         http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1658/6mhcgsu4t?a=view

I've put 18G and 36G drives in my Ultra-1 no problem.

SCSI usually is no problem. Its IDE thats the revolving standard as
they keep changing the way you need to access it on the HW level to
accomidate larger and larger drives. 

-- 
Doug McIntyre						merlyn@visi.com
                   Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
                      Vector Internet Services, Inc.

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