Re: Sun IPX with large SCSI disk.

[Tad Bilby <tbilby@rave.com>]

You may have an old boot prom-
limit / and /boot to less then 1GB

Tad

Jorge Novo wrote:

> Hello:
>
>   I have an Sun IPX with 48 Mbytes of memory and a new SCSI
> ST52160N Medalist Pro 2160 this hard drive has this parameters:
>
> ST52160N                  Medalist Pro 2160
>
> Drive specification ST52160N
> ----------------------------
> Guaranteed capacity (Gbytes, 10 9 )                     2.17
> Guaranteed sectors                                      4,238,282
> Bytes per sector                                        512
> Sectors per track (average)                             161
> Physical cylinders                                      6,536
> Physical read/write heads                               4
> Discs                                                   2
> Recording density (bits per inch, max)                  122,369
> Track density (tracks per inch)                         6,731
> Spindle speed (RPM)                                     5,397 ± 0.5%
> Internal data-transfer rate (Mbits per second max)      56.3 to 99.6 MHz
> External transfer rate (Mbytes per second, max)         10.0 asynchronous
>                                                         20.0 synchronous
> Cache buffer (Kbytes)                                   128
>
>   I have tried to pass through SILO with:
>
> SILO: linux sda=6536,4,161
>
>   But don't work.
>
>   In the instalation with fdisk in expert mode "x" i have tried too,
> but do not work too.
>
>   How I can proceed?
>
> --
> SALUDE3.
>
> Jorge Novo <jnovo@educanet.net>
>
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