[Sunhelp] PC disk in Sun

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:32:38AM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> While this is likely a FAQ, I can't find it anywhere.
> I've got a stack of SCSI disks formerly used as PC disks.  When I try to use
> them on a Sun (SPARCBook, actually), I get lotsa errors about inability to
> label, etc.  So, I fired up format and issued a format.  The format completes
>without finding bad sectors, but still can't label and complains about the TOC.
> It's not just the disk, as I've tried 3 of them so far.
> How do I use 'em?
> Thanks!
> Reagen

When you run "format", you need to go into "partition" and then tell it
to label the disk - just formatting the disk wont do this.

Bill

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