'Big' disk for 386i

[Syd Weinstein]

In article <8901310553.AA23554 at rice.edu> BYKAT at UTCVM.BITNET (Dr. A.Bykat) writes:
>We have a Sun386i/250 equiped with a 91 Mb disk and a 60Mb cartridge tape
>in a peripheral box. We have almost exhausted the disk (no surprise) and
>would like to add a bigger disk (322Mb or even 600Mb).

I have just finished adding a Maxstor 8760S (760MB Raw, 650MB formated)
disk to my 386i.  It went easy enough, so here is what I did.
1. Kludge a mounting bracked for it, as I don't know where to get one
2. Plug in the disk, which I bought from ATS in San Jose
3. edit /etc/format.dat to add the parameters for the disk.
4. run /etc/format, select disk sd0, type it, partition it, label it.
I ran into trouble here, the disk is supposed to be 1630,2=1632,
but for some reason, after 1615/14/24 it is unreadable, so I backed
it off to 1613,2=1615, I loose 6MB, but it works fine.
5. add entries to fstab, make the mount point /files1
6. reboot.

It works fine.  I am now in the process of trying to make automount points
for it.

Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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