wrong sector size
Hi
I have got a SparcStation 5 since a few weeks. It's my first Sparc.
The SparcStation has no floppy or CD drive. So I installed Debian 3.0
via netboot.
Since the 500 MB hard disk is not much, I've bought a 9 gig drive from
ebay (IBM DGHS-09Y).
I plugged it into the backplane and tried to start Debian.
But it reported "sda: unsupported sector size 520" and then "scsi:
deleting disk entry".
It stops booting with the message "kernel NULL pointer dereference".
I think I have to reformat the drive with a sector size of 512. Is that
correct? I have found two utilities to do that: scsiformat and
setblocksize (http://micha.freeshell.org/scsi/).
The problem is, that I have to unplug the drive in order to boot. After
that i can plug it in again. But those tools need to be given the drive
in terms of /dev/sdb or sonething similar.
If i use "scsiadd -a 1", it's again "deleting disk entry".
Is there a way to use these tools? They seem to use the sg driver. How
can I get this driver to "bind to" the drive, instead of the scsi disk
driver?
The other solution (formatting on a scsi hostadapter) is not possible at
the moment because I have no adapter (it's a SCA drive).
Can you help me?
TIA
Thomas
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