In article <3BBC51B1.9A195...@fairchildsemi.com>, Jeff Huber
<jhu...@fairchildsemi.com> wrote:
> I have a maxtor D540 40G IDE I want to add as a secondary drive on a
> Ultra10 solaris 7. Does anyone have any experience - particularly with
> wkat needs to be in the format.dat file? Thanks.
Solaris has Problems with IDE disks larger than 8GB.
This solution is applicable for all
IDE-DRIVES
To fix this problem you have to know the following
parameters:
The LBA-sector count (number of cylinders * number of heads * number of
sectors
in LBA
MODE)
If you are using Solaris X86 the PC- Bios provides this data.
Sparc-machines
can
't provide this data, so a PC is needed to get the specific data for the
Disk.
The formula to calculate the cylinders for Solaris is as
follows:
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