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Old 12-07-2008
Question Puzzled over over the relationship between the partition and geometry of hard disk.
Not sure why solaris couldn't detect the geometry of a hard disk which has a working OS of winxp pro.

Is it due to the different OS that the partition information is stored in different location?

When I type '"format" it is shown as below,

c3d1 < drive type unknown>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0

I was quite puzzled, since it is unknown to Solaris, that means, Solaris wouldn't know the disk structure, however, i could mount it as ntfs-3g and copy files onto it.

Anyone here can explain this and would be much appreciated!


Thanks...
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Old 12-07-2008
First of all, did you check if the hard-drive is supported on a SUN machine?
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Old 12-08-2008
it is an IDE hard disk..it is 40GB western digital .
# 4  
Old 12-08-2008
Sorry Im not asking for this. Whats the system model? A SUN server ONLY supports HDDs of certain part-number provided by SUN. Not any disks. Not recommended at all.
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Old 12-08-2008
If the drive type isn't discovered automatically via format. I believe the only other thing you can try is manually setting the cylinder counts and what not. You'd have to lookup the drive at the manufacturers website to get those details. Still no guarantee that it'll work correctly though, since its most likely not supported.
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Old 12-08-2008
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Originally Posted by incredible
Sorry Im not asking for this. Whats the system model? A SUN server ONLY supports HDDs of certain part-number provided by SUN. Not any disks. Not recommended at all.
Ops.. i;'m using a x86 machine..
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