Seagate 40GB disk in Ultra 5 running Solaris 8
2007-12-24 20:39:00
I just installed a Seagate ST340824A 40GB IDE disk into an Ultra 5. I
replaced the floppy drive with this drive and want to use it as a second
drive.
Anyway, the system boots up and recognizes the drive, but I went to
partition it and in format it thought the disk was only a 5.77GB disk! Now,
I thought Solaris 8 was able to recognize larger size drives. Here's what
format thinks the disk is:
format> current
Current Disk = c0t1d0
<ST340824A cyl 12007 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/dad at 1,0
partition> pr
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 12007 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wu 0 - 12006 5.77GB (12007/0/0) 12103056
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>
Am I missing some patch or something? I tried to manually change the
parameters in the disk by using the format-->Type-->Other option and
entering the info, but it wouldn't accept 256 as the number of heads (which
I got from the Seagate page). The data Seagate gives is:
Capacity: 40GB
Speed: 7200 rpm
Seek time: 8.5ms
Cylinders: 1023
Heads: 256
Sectors: 63
So, I'm curious how others out there have been able to use really large
disks in their Suns, and why I'm having problems on Solaris 8? I figured
it'd be easy to add the disk, especially since I'm on Solaris 8.
Thanks for any info! I'll surely summarize!
-Gary
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