[Aurora-sparc-user] f771: error: invalid option `align-double'

[Jos van der Ende]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:39:08 -0400
Owen Mann <owen-javanet at rcn.com> wrote:

> I would suggest exchanging a working disk with a non-working one. If the 
> working disk boots the previously non-working machine, try the bad one 
> in a PC. There are no special drivers for disks - an ATA drive is an ATA 
> drive.

Indeed. The IDE controller needs a driver, but the individual disks don't.

The driver needed for an U5/10 is cmd64x, which has been in the kernel tree for years and should have all the bugs ironed out by now. :-)

> Another idea is to see if the firmware (aka OBP aka OpenBoot) sees the 
> drive; I don't have a lot of experience with that so I'll have to leave 
> the details to someone else.

The OBP command to do that is probe-ide. This should give a list of attached IDE disks.
I do have a lot of experience with the OBP. ^^


I have noticed in the past that sometimes Aurora has problems with disks that were previously formatted by Solaris, perhaps due to differences in the geometry used.
One thing you can try is erase the partition table and let fdisk create a brand new one:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=512
fdisk /dev/hda

This will of course destroy all data that happens to be on the disk.


-- 
Jos van der Ende <seraph at xs4all.nl>