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Re: hardware question: scsi disk and SS10
In message <201411111455.JAA20265%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> you write:
|> > On the net there are reports where if the hard-disk is not properly
|> > formatted/partitioned probe-scsi will fail to detect it, but I think
|> > these are misleading.
|>
|> I don't think I've seen that. It's certainly possible that if it's
|> formatted with other than 512 bytes per sector, the ROM code refuses to
|> acknowledge its existence - I haven't tried enough non-512-byte drives
|> to have any data on that - but I definitely have used disks without a
|> Sun label on them. (On SPARCs in general, that is; I don't
|> specifically recall a SS10 working that way, though I'd be surprised if
|> it misbehaved.)
sformat on a SPARC running SunOS should recognize just about anything.
vb
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