Hi All:
I am using an adaptor between a 1TB SATA hard drive and solaris 8 box with 68 pin scsi. I use the format utility to partition the HD which works fine but when I use newfs, I get some errors. I will place them below.
I have blocked and the error message is in red.

Anybody got any idea how to rectify this situation?

18 NPSIM5 root% newfs -b 8192 -f 8192 -i 22048 -a 1 /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s7
newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s7: (y/n)? y

Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 63, ntrack 473, and nrpos 8.
Omitting tables - file system performance may be impaired.

/dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s7: 488077808 sectors in 16380 cylinders of 473 tracks, 63 sectors
238319.2MB in 1024 cyl groups (16 c/g, 232.80MB/g, 10944 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 476864, 953696, 1430528, 1907360, 2384192, 2861024, 3337856, 3814688,
4291520, 4768352, 5245184, 5722016, 6198848, 6675680, 7152512, 7629344,
8106176, 8583008, 9059840, 9536672, 10013504, 10490336, 10967168, 11444000,
11920832, 12397664, 12874496, 13351328, 13828160, 14304992, 14781824,
15258656, 15735488, 16212320, 16689152, 17165984, 17642816, 18119648,
And so on………..

Solaris 8 sparc (last and newest release)
latest Solaris 8 Recommended patches
512MB memory
72GB Hitachi 10k rpm disk UltraStar (Operating system disk)
1TB Hitachi DeskStar sata drive with acard scsi to sata adaptor.

Thanks

It looks as if Solaris doesn't like the geometry of the disk.

What does the prtvtoc of the disk look like?