jaz@calvin.icd.ab.com (12/10/89)
I just bought a SPARCstation 1. Along with it I bought a 3rd party SCSI hard disk. Does the SUN OS 4.03 for the SPARC, walk you through creation of the disk_type and partition tables for 3rd party disks, or do you add them to the format.dat on the RAM disk during installation ? Also, I can't seem to find anywhere in the documentation where the table entries are defined. For example, under disk_type, Here is a listing of the entries with question marks on the ones I am not sure about. ctlr - Controller type fmt_time - ?? cache - ?? trks_zone - ?? asect - Alternate sectors. (Is this per cylinder ??) ncyl - Number of cylinders acyl - Alternate cylinders pcyl - Physical cylinders nhead - number of heads nsect - number of sectors (I assume per head ??) rpm - at least I know what this means btp - bytes per track Could someone explain the disk_type parameters to me, or recommend a manual to consult ? The Sun installation guide does not explain this. They also do not walk you through installation of 3rd party SCSI disks. As far as the partition table goes, can someone give me an idea of what an average partition would be for a 350 MB drive on a single user Sparc 1 running sunos 4.03 ? For example: partition A - 16MB partition B - 32MB (I was told you want more than 16MB on a sparc) partition C - 350MB partition G - (C minus (A plus B)) Is this what I really want, or should I use another partition for /home. What is the significance of having a home partition or not ? Thanks in advance, Jack A. Zucker jaz@calvin.icd.ab.com