Fujitsu 1.2Gb disk on Sun

[John Rowe]

In article <1991May9.191941.2377 at mprgate.mpr.ca> parker at mprgate.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes:

>   I've set up a Fujitsu 2266 disk on a Sun SPARC 2 system, and
>   am experiencing some problems.

>   The numbers I've used to format the drive (on the advice of
>   Fujitsu) are: 1642 cylinders, 2 alternates, 15 heads, 85
>   sectors. The disk logic can actually address 1658 cylinders
>   (plus alternates), but Sun's format chokes with that.

>   I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on the SPARC 2.

Well, if it's worth anything my new Fujitsu 1.2 GB (can't find the
model number off hand - sorry!) came formatted at 1653 2 15 85, I
reformatted it with the same values on a Sparc 2 and it's been running
on an IPC as its main drive for a month with no problems. Both running
4.1.1

John