Re: [foxboro] Restoring on AW51D, Hard disk size difference

Kevin,
 
I worked through the following procedure to down size a hard drive on a 51D.
 
The Foxboro Unix based IA will only install on certain hard drives.  Some of 
these hard drives are no longer available on the market.  You can purchase a 
larger sized hard drive of the same type and re-size it down to one of the 
Foxboro type of hard drives.
For example:
Foxboro Standard                                           Non-Foxboro
Seagate ST38410A                                        Seagate ST39140A
8.1 G Byte                                                      9.1 G Byte
16706                                     cyln                  17760
16                                           head                16
63                                           sect. / trk         63
7200                                       rpm                  7200

On AW51D, connect the Foxboro standard drive as the Primary Master IDE (middle 
ribbon cable).  Connect the Non-Foxboro (target ) drive as the Secondary Master 
(cable near power connector)

Power on the computer and hit  "STOP + A" when the white screen appears. Type

probe-ide  (ensure that the Primary Master is the Fox standard and the target 
is Secondary Master)

boot -rs
enter the password when requested

format
select the target drive    1   (one)

type

select "Other" by its number    11

(enter the parameters for your drive but the name must be a Foxboro standard 
name)

16706

2

16708

16

63

7200                (rpm)

default  (for the next 9 entries)

"ST38410A"                             (a Foxboro standard drive)

partition

2

[backup]

[wu]

0

16381c

label

y

quit

label

y

q

This makes the 9.1 GB drive appear to be a Foxboro standard 8.1 GB drive and 
you may now create a Day0 hard drive or you can restore a tape made from and 
existing 8.1 GB drive where you want to use this drive as a replacement.

You may need a copy of the latest Foxboro floppy diskette (K0175SN) to get the 
information for the current list of supported hard drives.

Regards,
Terry


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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin Fitzgerrell
Sent: Fri 15/05/2009 7:13 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Restoring on AW51D, Hard disk size difference



William,
I do this with no problems on the SCSI boxes, but I always seem to run in to
problems on the D boxes using IDE drives.

I've got some spare U5 hardware with Sun labeled 20GB drives.  One has an
MD00200-BABW and 2 have ST320413A.  Neither of these is recognized in the
Foxboro install scripts.  Re-labeling gets me to an error message that says
"cannot format drive - use the manufacturer's format program".

Cheers,

Kevin




 
 
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