RE: Re[2]: problem with harddisks

Glad to hear i could help,

BTW, as your drive is large enough to contain it, you might try Open Office.
Yesterday i read on the aurora-sparc-list that somebody was able to compile
(and use) Open Office for linux@sparc...

Hans


-----Original Message-----
From: C.Alsche [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: donderdag 22 mei 2003 11:25
To: Witvliet, Hans
Subject: Re[2]: [suse-sparc] problem with harddisks


Hello Hans,

Thursday, May 22, 2003, 10:07:20 AM, you wrote:

WH> Hi,

WH> Sorry for asking the obvious....
WH> At the time the sparc20 were in production, the largest disks were
4.3GB, so
WH> there are no sun disklabels for larger drives.
WH> What i had to do, was, getting the drive exact geometry (platters,
WH> cylinders, rpm, sectors/cylinders, etc etc) from the disc-manufacturers
WH> site. 
WH> Use these values when doing fdisk, and create your own disklabel.

thank you for your help... I created the label and now i can work with
the disk..

thank you...