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
