urgent, ultra10 IDE srive question

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HI,
I have an ultra10 that comes with two IDE internal
ST39120A dirves. I try to install solaris 2.8.
I boot from cdrom "ok>boot cdrom -s" and try
to repartition and run format on each disk. I get:
"cannnot format this drive. use manaufacturer supplied
utility". I think that there should be an easy way to do this.
Please help.
Jim

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[Bill Marcum]

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>HI,
>I have an ultra10 that comes with two IDE internal
>ST39120A dirves. I try to install solaris 2.8.
>I boot from cdrom "ok>boot cdrom -s" and try
>to repartition and run format on each disk. I get:
>"cannnot format this drive. use manaufacturer supplied
>utility". I think that there should be an easy way to do this.
>Please help.
>Jim
>

Are you sure that you need to format? Perhaps "mkfs" is what you want to
do instead. Check the man page, but I think the "format" command is for
a low-level format.

[Andy Chang]

When you install Solaris8 using the installation CD, it will ask you if you
want to format the disk or not...
That should do the trick.

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