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

From: dave (dave_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 10:16:20 -0800

thanks

In article <3fa1417e$0$75892$a1866201@newsreader.visi.com>, Doug McIntyre
says...
>
>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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