Re: Using format for unrecognized drives

From: Pliny the Welder (dsfsdf_at_fsggh4lt4lkl.com)
Date: 05/29/05 

Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 02:25:29 GMT

<jimruth@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1117330918.434542.26350@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I recently purchased a 50-pin SCSI 9.1G hard drive to replace the drive
> that died in my unipack enclosure. The drive is an IBM Ultrastar 2XP
> DCHS-39100. When I run format on my Ultra-10 Solaris 8 machine, the
> drive is not recognized or in the list and I have to select the "other"
> option (18). At this point, you are asked for things like cylinders,
> sectors/track, etc. I've found some pretty good documentation on that
> model hard drive but I'll be damned if the cylinder, track, or sector
> information is there. Any suggestions of how I can set up this drive or
> where I can get this information?
>

That drive has 17,796,077 sectors. Try some combination of CHS so that C x
H x S = 17796077 (or a little less).

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