My original post was:
>I have a new 4.3GB Seagate AD4371
>drive I'm trying to format on a Sparc 20
>SunOS 4.1.4. I have the following partition
>map:
>
>Current partition table (original sd1):
> partition a - starting cyl 0, # blocks 0 (0/0/0)
> partition b - starting cyl 0, # blocks 0 (0/0/0)
> partition c - starting cyl 0, # blocks 8493560 (5179/0/0)
> partition d - starting cyl 0, # blocks 0 (0/0/0)
> partition e - starting cyl 0, # blocks 0 (0/0/0)
> partition f - starting cyl 0, # blocks 0 (0/0/0)
> partition g - starting cyl 0, # blocks 4245960 (2589/0/0)
> partition h - starting cyl 2589, # blocks 4247600 (2590/0/0)
>
>When I perform a newfs, I get the following:
>
># newfs /dev/rsd1g
>seek error: 4245959
>wtfs: Error 0
>
># newfs /dev/rsd1h
>seek error: 4247599
>wtfs: Error 0
>
>Am I doing something wrong? Am I running into disk geometry
>problems, or some limit on the size a partition can be newfs-ed?
>
Turns out that SunOS has a 2G partition limit on user partitions.
Solaris has no limit. Thanks to all.
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