Formatting disk under SunOS 5.6

It so happens that my company's customers mainly use
other UNIX vendors, so I don't do much with
SunOS/Solaris. So please excuse my ignorance.
Anyway, I've got a customer with nearly 10 year old
Sparc 5's and Sparc 10's, I believe. He's looking at
trying to allocate capital expenditure sometime in a
year or two to upgrade, but needs to hang on to what
he's got for the time being.
He originally had an internal 2 gig drive and an
external 2 gig drives in these machines, for a total
of 4 gigs. Some of the drives are starting to fail,
so we figured we would upgrade them to single drives,
like around 9 gigs. He found some surplus IBM
UltraStar 9ES 39130W 9 gig drives. That would replace
his two drives and double his space, which is more
than enough for what he is using.
Customer got some of these drives surplus somewhere.
One had previously been in a Sun machine and had
already been Sun formatted. But another one was
unformatted as far as SunOS was concerned. The one
that had already been formatted, I've had no problems
with. I rebuilt file systems and its working fine.
But the one that isn't formatted, I'm having trouble
e with getting it formatted.
Looking at what SunOS says the drive is on the one
that works, it says it has 8186 cyliners + 2 reserved,
10 heads, 218 sectors per cylinder. But I try to tell
the format command that this other drive is like that,
and format it, and it fails says reserved failed,
format failed.
I went to Hitachi's site (as they bought IBM's drive
business) and found the specs on the drive, and it
really has several zones, with different numbers of
sectors per zone. I don't know if SunOS needs to know
this, or if the drive hides the different zones and
makes it look like all the cylinders are the same. If
the OS needs to know about the zones, I don't know how
to enter this data. In the prompts that format gave
me, it did ask a few questions about zones, and so
maybe I need to answer these questions right and don't
know how.
But one other thing I noticed is that when I use the
inquiry command, I see a different revision between
the working drive and the non-working drive. So,
maybe it is a revision issue. Here is what the
non-working drive says:
format> inquiry
Vendor: IBM
Product: DDRS-39130W
Revision: S92A
And here is what the working drive says:
format> inquiry
Vendor: IBM
Product: DDRS-39130W
Revision: S71D
Now it is also possible that the drive I'm not able to
get to work is defective, since the drives he got as
surplus, it may be that my only problem is that he's
got a bad drive. So, I'm guessing that there could
be 1 of 3 problems:
1. The revision S92A is not compatible with my
customer's systems.
2. Customer got a defective drive, and the problem is
not related to the revision.
3. There is some secret to getting these drives
formatted under SunOS (prehaps relating to the zones)
and I don't know the secret, and the problem is not
related to the revision.
Anybody have any suggestions? Sorry for my
ignorance.You may be correct in your assumptions regarding a failed drive. However, you might want to try this command to see what it can do for you assuming the drive in question is drive 1 which, in a Sparc 5, is the bottom internal drive with drive 3 being the top drive (boot drive). Anyway, regardless of what drive it is, you can boot the Sparc 5 into standalone using the Sun Solaris installation CD using the following command after you have connected the drive and noted the drives target number. At the OBP "ok" prompt with the Solaris installation CD in the CD drive enter:
NOTE
MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHICH TARGE THE DRIVE IS BECAUSE THIS COMMAND WILL ERASE THE DRIVE!!!!!!!!
ok boot cdrom -s
At the # prompt enter:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=16 count=16
You should receive a display of in and out numbers then the # prompt. If the drive target is 1 then change the "t0" in the command to "t1". Remember, the "t" in the above command is the drive target number and the "s2" is the label slice or, overlap, and this will be reset to the drives size. Partition under format can do this as well which, not knowing what drive target you have put the drive as, is difficult to indicate in the command syntax. Simply run format at the # prompt and select the drive then enter partition. Enter print and note the partitions that are currently on the drive, if any. Select the appropriate partition to delete and when asked the beginning number press enter and when asked ending number enter "0" (zero) and press enter. Do this for every slice and when complete, enter "print" and it should show you a clean drive. Create a partition on the drive you want then save the drive label. After this enter label and save then exit and create a new files system using newfs and the appropriate target number.
I've used the dd command to zero the label in order for Solaris to see the drives complete size. I've also used format to delete and create partitions then use newfs to create a new file system without problems. Sparc 5's and 20's are similiar with the exceptions of the montherboards in the way the drives are viewed by OBP. I assume you have run "probe-scsi" and both drives in question show up properly. This will only tell you that the OBP can talk to the OEM info on the drive, as you probably already know. It's up to Solaris to use the drive and look at the label for drive size and partition sizes. That's where dd or format/partition comes into play. I've run into problem with Sparc 5/20's that will not see a specific drive types/OEM. This may be because they are not single ended but Ultra SCSI's which should be written on the drives physical label on top of the drive. Invalid or unsupported drives will usually, not always, give you an errorious display at the OBP prompt using probe-scsi, of course depending on the OBP version.
Good luck and remember, any use of the above command(s) is at your own risk and be aware that using these commands can and will erase the entire contents of various slices and or the entire drive.
Michael

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