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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Hard drive formating Post 302709615 by Corona688 on Wednesday 3rd of October 2012 11:27:55 AM
Old 10-03-2012
Perhaps a problem with your hard drive controller drivers, like I mentioned way back in my first reply.

This does not mean they "suck". It means there's problems with their disk controller drivers, for your specific hardware.

What is your system? Laptops especially are liable to have problems, since their hardware is often bizarre and had corners cut in manufacture, which they fix by patching custom Windows drivers. The rest of the world just has to suffer until they reverse-engineer what problems got wired into it...

Try 'lspci' to see what your hardware actually is. That may help explain why you were having problems.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

chs

chs(7D) 							      Devices								   chs(7D)

NAME

       chs - IBM ServeRAID PCI host adapter driver

DESCRIPTION

       The chs driver is the IBM ServeRAID PCI controller driver.

PRECONFIGURATION

   Known Problems and Limitations
       To  prevent  data  loss,  a  SCSI disk drive that is not defined as part of any physical pack within a logical drive will not be accessible
       through the Solaris operating environment.

CONFIGURATION

       Auto-configuration code determines whether the adapter is present at the configured address and what types of devices are attached  to  it.
       The IBM ServeRAID is primarily used as a disk array (system drive) controller.

       To  configure the attached disk arrays, you must configure the controller (using the configuration utilities provided by the hardware manu-
       facturer) before booting the Solaris operating environment You use the configuration utilities to set RAID levels, stripe parameters, cache
       mechanisms and perform other functions. For more information, see the user manual supplied with your hardware.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/chs.conf	       chs configuration file

       /dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n	       block device

       /dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n	       raw device where:

       cn			       controller n

       dn			       LUN n (0-7)

       sn			       UNIX system slice n (0-15)

       pn			       fdisk(1M) partition(0)

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(1M), attributes(5), cmdk(7D)

SunOS 5.10							 27 November 2000							   chs(7D)
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