On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 20:40, Mike Noonan wrote: > I have spent too many hours trying to get through the hard drive > partitioning and formatting process for loading debian linux on my > ultraSparcII machine with no success... > > My system has three IBM DNES-309170 9GB SCSI-SE drive in it... which are > seen when the system boots, but when I try and calculate the disk space from > the C*H*S*512 formula given by the online fdisk docs, the size does not > match up to what i would expect... this is the first problem. > > If I ignore this "problem" (which i know sholdn't be ignored) I cannot > figure out how to set the linux partitions... > > If anyone can offer up any guidance I would be very happy... especially if > it meant that I could move on from this nightmare of a problem and get this > system up and running.
Good source: http://www.unixguide.net/sun/manager/5.1.shtml points to this compilation of geometries ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/format.dat which contains an entry for this drive: # From a contributer at Center for Space Research, MIT: # According to scsiinfo-4.6: disk_type = "IBM DNES-309170" \ : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 18 \ : trks_zone = 5215 : atrks = 0 : asect = 0 \ : ncyl = 11195 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 11474 : nhead = 5 : nsect = 320 \ : rpm = 7200 : bpt = 188160 These parameters yield about 8.5 x 1024**3 bytes. That's correct for a drive advertised as 9.1 gigabytes using gigabyte=1000**3. -- SP
