I chose Western Digital the first time when I did format, type. It came up as 2GB. I know I can upgrade Solaris. It is just that with a 10 years old computer, I am trying to get by with as little as possible. This is an analytical chemistry instrument. The instrument itself is pretty expensive (...
Hi domburns62,
Could you please elaborate on "inquiry subcommand"? When I typed format, there is a list of available command printed right away. If I tried "label", I would get question whether I want it, when I confirmed "y", it would exit the sub-routine. How do I do autoconfigure...
I did slice 2 also, the result is the same. My manual ( the Sun is used to drive an instrument, the instrument vendor has a bit of manual on how to format 2nd HD ) said to make all other slices zero, except slices 2 and 7, which are the whole disk. And that is what I did.
Just to refresh, the...
Thanks Mike and domburns62, I did not mean to be silent, but was trying to give a more meaningful reply. The truth is I do not work with the system every day, and had not been touching it since I posted the initial message. I will go in Monday morning.
Answers to your suggestions/inquiries...
I have an Ultra 10, running Solaris 7. The hard drive is about 8GB. I bought a 2nd hd, from Western Digital, of 500GB. It is PATA, EIDE. When I put it in, and went through format, mount, etc., only 2GB was available. I did partition in format, and assigned only slice 2 and slice 7 to the full...
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