Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB Disk Drive

Well, I didn't hear from any Sun Managers :-(

But I did hear from my vendor (CITA) who heard from Fujitsu.

The problem turns out to be a limitation within SunOS (uuugggghhh!!!!)

which prevents it from being able to use the 98 sectors/track on

the 2266sa. The fix is to use the following numbers:

   heads=15

   datacyl=1642

   alt cyl=2

   pcyl=1644

   sec/trk=85 <-- the magic cookie

   bpt=46635

The drive formatted fine on a SS1 without the tty timeout patch

and I will move it over to the 4/330 today for a happy life

of data storage.

BTW: the Fujitsu BBS (408-944-9899) had some useful info as well.

p.s. CITA managed to turn this in almost record time, considering that

Fujitsu and CITA are on opposite coasts, 4 hours is pretty darn good.

--mark

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[1517 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-25 7:15:00]