Sun Managers,
Thanks to all who responded. My problem was that
my disk exceeded the Sunos 4.x 2G limit. I cannot use the
whole disk as one filesystem. Sorry, I forgot to mention
I am running 4.1.2 without Online DiskSuite.
Some Noteworthy responses:
>From: seanw@amgen.com (Sean Ward)
>Hi Kim. I'm assuming you're running SunOS 4.x w/o
>Online Disk Suite and/or not Solaris 2.x. The
>problem is that the c partition is too large. The
>maximum partition size for 4.x without ODS is 2^22
>blocks, or 4194304. Right now you're trying to
>create a file system just above that limit.
>You have a number of options:
>1. Split the drive into multiple file systems.
>2. Buy ODS to get past the 2GB limit.
>3. Upgrade to Solaris.
>From: John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
>Don't use scsiping to generate format.dat entries.
>Use scsiinfo (ftp.cdf.toronto.edu:/pub/scsiinfo/*)
>In any case, your "c" partition is slightly too big
>for a SunOS 4.x filesystem, which has a 2GB (4194304
>blocks) size limit. Create a smaller partition and
>use that.
Andre Saile gave me a format.dat entry for my drive.
>As I compared your format.dat entry I see that you
>have other parameters as I and I work fine with my
>parameters since a long time. Therefore I will send
>you my parameters :
>disk_type = "Seagate ST32430N" : ctrl = SCSI\
: ncyl=3884 : acyl=2 : pcyl=3886\
: nhead=9 : nsec=117 : rqm=5400\
: bpt=60928
Thanks to:
jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko)
seanw@amgen.com (Sean Ward)
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
Andre Saile <saile@transtec.de>
David Moline <drm@gcs.oz.au>
ldr@taec.com (Larry Ridenour)
Philip.Kao@artecon.com (Philip Kao)
sdr@rdga3.att.com (S. D. Raffensberger 500622500 (RD))
sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)
misawa@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Shigeki Misawa)
saile@transtec.de Mon Aug 21 03:25:55 1995
gunn@lardav.com (David Gunn)
root@treveris.Uni-Trier.DE (Smooth Operator)
white@uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu
-Kim
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