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Old 08-02-2008
Using newfs to make file system on a sata disk using Acard adaptor

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
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Old 08-03-2008
It looks as if Solaris doesn't like the geometry of the disk.

What does the prtvtoc of the disk look like?
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