Tim, > New to this forum and new to IA systems. Have done some searching but > have not found an answer to my problem. Welcome to our world! ;-)>=20 =20 > Have a WP51D Sun box that constantly cycles through boot sequence when > attempting to boot. Gives some error associated with reading from the > hard disk. I attempted to do an "ia_install" from the "Day 0" cd but > when it gets to step where it is supposed to format the hard drive it > says "unable to format hard disk" and dumps out to "#" prompt. I have a > few questions: Sorry about your hard drive, but it's only good for a door stop now. > 1. The hard drive installed is a Seagate 8.4GB IDE drive. I have > a known good Fujitsu 10GB IDE drive. I have attempted to install the > Fuji drive but the "auto_get_size" script in the ia_install fails and > dumps me out to the # prompt. Can I install this drive? >=20 > 2. How do I format a drive of any size in a WP51D box? A better > question is how do I boot to Unix so that I can format a drive on the > WP51D box? There is no floppy and I can't find a way to get to bios to > boot from CDRom. To boot from CD-ROM, press Stop-A (on the Sun keyboard, I don't know the proper escape sequence if you'r not using the Sun keyboard) and type "boot cdrom" at the subsequent # prompt. There are several threads about formatting hard drives in the archive, the one that I'm familiar with is here: //www.freelists.org/archives/foxboro/01-2002/msg00103.html Good luck! Duc _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave