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Re: Formatting SeaGate Barracuda ST39216N drive with SLINK CD



On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:46:59PM -0400, Tad Bilby wrote:
> If you have access to Solaris 2.6 or greater, run format on the drive
> and auto-configure to create a format.dat and disk label.

Not sure about format.dat, but on the Debian install, simply run "fdisk
/dev/sda", and hit the 's' key. That will create a new Sun disklabel, go
with the autoconfig (if that doesn't work, use the Seagate specs for
heads/tracks/sectors...).

Ben

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