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I've been having problems configuring an internal 200Gb Western Digital IDE
disk drive on my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 9.  The drive continually
shows
up as 500 Mb (!) inside "format".

After putting this into my /etc/format.dat:

disk_type = "WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0" \
         : ctlr = ata : ncyl = 95768 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 95770 \
         : nhead = 16 : nsect = 255 : rpm = 7200

partition = "original" \
         : disk = "WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0" : ctlr = ata \
         : 2 =  0, 390725280

.....I now can get this far:

partition> pri
Current partition table (unnamed):
Total disk cylinders available: 95768 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  1 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  2     backup    wu       0 - 95765      186.31GB    (95766/0/0) 390725280
  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0

partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

Warning: error writing VTOC.
Warning: no backup labels
Label failed.
partition>

...guess due to this error, the changes don't take effect, because when
I go back
into format, I have a half-Gig drive again :(

Thanks!

Randy

Quote:> I've been having problems configuring an internal 200Gb Western Digital IDE
> disk drive on my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 9.  The drive continually
> shows
> up as 500 Mb (!) inside "format".

Look at these threds: Solaris does not support 48 bit lbas.

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=...

Quote:>I've been having problems configuring an internal 200Gb Western Digital IDE
>disk drive on my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 9.  The drive continually
>shows up as 500 Mb (!) inside "format".

and it will continue to show as 500MB until the dad driver fixes a
math overflow (read: bug) at which point you will be able to use
128GB (137 "peecee" GB) of ide disks larger than 128GB.  the Ultra 10
has no support for ATA-6 extended lba addressing.