The saga of the lost 250 gig drive!
Solaris Express Developer 5/07 5.11 x86 install Asus P5RD2-VM Seagate drives:
Disks c1d0 c2d0 Solaris configures via installer c1d0(boot) allowed to use entire drive.
Disk two c2d0 is already configured with Bootloader (/dev/sda) sda1 60 gig ext3 (Ubuntu) sda2 1 gig swap remainder sda3 fat32 for joint access.
Solaris Management Console states the disk (c1d0) it set up fails to have a Solaris partition and wants to fdisk it. Hmm problem? Secondly despite extensive testing I can't mount (sda3) for access.
The attempts: ?mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0s2 /mnt/aux ?i've tried scsi c2t0d0s2 also with partition 0-9 to no avail. However plug in my usb 250 and it mounts with no problem.
I have installed Solaris numerous times and even wiped both drives and put Solaris on the small drive.
I always get the same balk from 'SMC' stating a non Solaris fdisk that it setup. Attempting to identify the correct partition via dd if=drive bs=512 count=1 of=find_that_#!&* still left me out in the cold looking for a solution. Windows, Ubuntu, Mandrake and Dsl can all see the drives with no problem.
The oddest thing of the whole ridiculous episode is when I re-installed the last time Solaris added a grub line for Windows for the disk partition it refuses to mount.
Gparted Solaris where are you?
Any ideas greatly appreciated. I should note the re-installs are simply an attempt to resolve inability to access the fat32 partition, Solaris itself is stable and just as healthy as it can be.
