Re: hardware question: scsi disk and SS10

[Volker Borchert <v.borchert%vistecprivat.de@localhost>]

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