[SunRescue] RE: Bob blames his tools... when appropriate

[Paul Sladen]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> Sadly, today, the classic ate the DEC RZ24L that I was formatting for the
> SS10, as a replacement.... on Solaris 2.4.  I hit 0 for the auto guess,
> and it guessed and formatted the drive way under capacity.  I would not
> really care, but it seems I go quite divergently around in circles just
> formatting a drive on the suns that the old VAX gets right the first time.
> Now I have to pull it out of the classic and stuff it on the VAX and
> repeat again.... repeat again.... repeat again....  (:+\\...
> Anyone know the algorithm that sun is using to do its formatting guessing?

Have you tried zeroing the first few sectors of the disk (might work --
worked for me once!).

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=512 count=32

HIH, Paul

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