Best bet is that the drive is no good. I called SunService on the
warranty, and they volunteered that the disk shouldn't be behaving like
that and are shipping a replacement.
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>Solaris 2.5.1 HW 4/97, Ultra 170
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>We bought a new 4.2G disk from Sun in one of their external cabinets,
>hooked it up, did boot -r. Device files are present, format sees the
>disk but refuses to format it (or write a partition table, or label it).
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>I am clueless. A reduced version of a format session follows.
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>Has anyone seen this before? Will summarize.
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