[Suns-at-Home] U60 does not like a 300GB USB HD

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

At 06:40 AM 5/28/2007, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>         I have this WD3200 (300GB?) ATA HD in a USB/FW box which I 
> connected to my U60. Now, when I try to format/partition it, it 
> seems that Sol10 is having a hard time figuring it out, so I first 
> took it to a Linux box so to get its specs and then brought it back 
> to the U60 and feed that info.  As you can see below, it seemed to 
> have taken it:
>
>But, when I try to format it, it barks at me:
>
>format> fo
>Ready to format.  Formatting cannot be interrupted.
>Continue? y
>Beginning format. The current time is Sun May 27 21:59:10 2007
>
>Formatting...
>Format failed
>
>Anything I may be doing wrong?

disclaimer: i've never used an ATA drive on a sun box (only scsi). 
that said - are you sure you need to format it? have you tried just 
newfs'ing it? i've never had to use the actual format function on 
scsi drives - but again, that's all i've ever used, so who knows.

alternatively, perhaps ZFS could manage the details without any 
special actions at all, a la

zpool create {mypool}  c4t0d0



Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com