Re: Ultra 10 max HDD capacity?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:15:37PM +, Chris Andrew wrote: > Sun suggest that the max HDD capacity for Ultra 10's is 20.4 Gb, is there > any reason why (under linux), we can't use bigger? I don't need bigger, but > it's easier to buy big than small, these days. weirdy ;) on my ultra 10 i have two disks: hda: 8404830 sectors (4303 MB), CHS=8894/15/63, (U)DMA (orginal ;) hdc: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, (U)DMA both works fine, without any problems. maybe problem is with booting - i dont know - i use silo on first(smaller) disk. -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer HomePage: http://andrzej.dopierala.name/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about KErnel source and debian/sparc..
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Scott Walker wrote: > I know under x86 hardware in the /usr/include directory you usually have > 3 links i'm not have debian, but PLD linux, but... hm... two things... first - on sparc there are two "asm" versions - sparc(32) and sparc64 So should be links: asm-sparc -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-sparc asm-sparc64 -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-sparc64 and you should select which version are you using when compile. and second... from kernel 2.6 kernel headers shouldn't be used directly by userland applications. each distribution sholud have special "userland" headers to use in applications. in pld are used linux-libc-headers (from http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/). I think in debian is similar project. -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer HomePage: http://aramin.net/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk on sparc?
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:25PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > cfdisk is AFAIK only used to edit DOS or PC-BIOS like partition tables. > > Sparc computers use their "slices" only, so there's exactly no use for > > such a partition sector on a Sparc computer's harddisk... > > Not true, people can and do use PC style boot blocks on their > Sparc systems all the time. You just can't use one easily on > the partition you wish to boot from, that's all. true ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefine]# fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdc |egrep "Disk|cyl" Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes on my ultra 10, when i connect secondary hdd i can't use there sun disklabels - it writes that there is too many cylinders or blocks.. with msdos label it works fine. -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer HomePage: http://aramin.net/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all is read-only
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:51:12PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > The Undefined wrote: > >try append at boot to silo "rw" - it mount rootfs in rw mode. > > I'll try > This is the content of my silo.conf file. > > partition=1 > root=/dev/hda1 > timeout=100 > image=1/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only my silo.conf on one from my sparcs ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefine]$ less /etc/silo.conf partition = 1 root = /dev/sda1 read-write default=linux timeout = 100 image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 label = linux-2.4.20 alias = linux append = "root=/dev/sda4 rw" (but it isn't debian - pld) -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer HomePage: http://aramin.net/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all is read-only
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > All passed ... but when rebooting, the root FS is read-only so that > nothong can launch ... (removing tmp files cant'be done because of FS > read-only, no deamons can be launch because of FS read-only, ...) try append at boot to silo "rw" - it mount rootfs in rw mode. what a filesystem is at /? xfs? -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer HomePage: http://aramin.net/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Debian 3.0 + SPARCstation 4 + SVGALib 1.4.3
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:49:30AM -0300, Miguel da Silva wrote: > I´m trying to use the SVGALib 1.4.3 in a SPARCstation 4 (110MHz) running > Debian 3.0. > > I´ve downloaded the sources from www.svgalib.org and when I try to compile > the SPARC returns me the following messages: > > libvga.h: 276 (and also sometimes 296) > inconsistent operand constraints in an ´asm´. > > libvga.h: 12 > warning: no include path in wich to find sys/io.h > > This message appears several times and at the end I´ve got this one: > > /root/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c: At top level: > /root/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:318: warning: ´release_acquire´ defined but not > used > make[1]: ***[vga.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory ´/root/svgalib-1.4.3/sharedlib´ > make: *** [sharedlib/libvga.so.1.4.3] Error 2 > > Using the command find I can see that the system contains three files called > ´io.h´: > > /usr/include/asm/io.h > /usr/include/asm-sparc/io.h > /usr/include/asm-sparc64/io.h > > Any suggestion?! afaik sparc doesn't support svgalib. you can use instead svgalib4ggi http://www.ggi-project.org/ -- Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała UNIX && Linux administrator, Adam Mickiewicz University WMiI PLD Linux Developer JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
