heather valentine wrote: > hi > > In order for solaris to detect 2 of my drives that are SATA > i had to turn raid off and set them to IDE. > > i want to format them so that i am able to write to them > they are in NTFS right now and i am able to mount > and read from them but can not write to them. > > i am not familar with UFS or ZFS or Pools but here is where i got stuck > > code: > > format > > > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: > 0. c0d0 <drive type unknown> > /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0 > format > > Cannot format this drive. Please use your Manufacturer supplied formatting > utility >
Format only works with SCSI drives. You don't have to format the drive, just destroy the NTFS partition and replace it with a Solaris one. Ian
