I purchased an old SCSI drive for my Sparc 10 (named, quite inventively, "sparky") off of eBay. Now, I've installed hard drives before (on PCs), and it's never been a problem. But this time it's very hard. I'm not sure why, but I can't seem to get the drive formatted to Solaris' satisfaction, even after posting a query to the Suns-at-home mailing list. After some Google research, I'm leaning toward the belief that the drive is fried. At least I only paid $8 for it. The big bummer is that until I get a drive installed I can't install the new pair of super-groovy Bridgeport 125mhz processors that I also bought on eBay.
Posted: Wed May 07 09:00:28 -0700 2003






























