Re: Sun Storage Array BUG

In article <3lnpvp$179a@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, kriston@ibm.net writes: > At a recent Sun configuration seminar it has been mentioned that on any Sun > drive you really don't want to use slice #0 for the raw partition. You can > make the raw partition as large as you like, but use #1 or greater. > > I'm not sure how this applies to the SPARCstorage Array, but there you > have it. > > Sun also purports that raw partitions only gain you 2% less throughput under > Solaris 2.4. If you're still using 2.3 or (gasp!) SunOS 4.x, you'll still want to use > raw partitions. > > Have an incredibly pleasant week.! > > Kris > I believe you mean cylinder 0 instead of slice 0. Which slice you use is irrelevant as long as you skip the label at the beginning in the first few blocks of the disk. e.g. Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 unassigned wm 1 - 82 64.68MB (82/0/0) -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services System/Net Admin Auburn University doug@eng.auburn.edu "Real programmers use cat > file.as"