Re: [foxboro] Hard Drive Type
- From: "William C. Ricker" <wcricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:33:24 -0400
Many 9gb drives are useable on the B box, but whichever is used must
be labeled as a SUN9.0G (that exact label).
The way it works is that the drive has a type which is marked in ROM
by the manufacturer. In addition, Sun puts a label on the drive for
it's own purposes. This label can be rewritten to change what the
processor sees the drive to be.
Foxboro software is setup to use specific drive geometries when
software installation sets up partitioning, and the geometry the
Foxboro software reads is through that label.
The trick, then, is to get any drive which is large enough, then
relabel it to be the SUN9.0G type. "Big Enough" also includes
18 and 36 GB drives.
If you go buy a hard drive which is big enough, but does not have the
proper label, the easiest way to relabel the thing is to put it in
a machine as a second drive, but where the primary drive is already
a 9 GB.
Now run the command "format". Use the TYPE option to set the type for
the second drive, then the LABEL option to actually write the type
to the disk. After that, the disk is useable for Foxboro software.
Regards,
William C. Ricker
FeedForward, Inc.
Marietta, GA USA
770.426.4422
wcricker @ feedforward.com
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