[SPARCbook] 12G drive, but only 8G seen

[Ken Hansen]

Tadpole stuff is not included on any Sun distribution. On Some Solaris
releases (as noted on FAQ) the framebuffer is supported.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Helena Sderholm" <helsod at algonet.se>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] 12G drive, but only 8G seen


> Hi!
>
> I can report that I have managed to install a 12G IDE drive with Solaris
2.6 5/98. Only 8G of the drive is seen though. I guess the limit is not 6G,
at least not for my SCSI converter. Its irritating to lose 4G, still 8G is
plenty of room.
>
> I had some problems with the install but I think the problem was really
that the / partition was 2G (because Solaris puts everything in /opt I make
/ quite large). I changed this partition to 1.8G or something and it worked,
but I tried a bunch of other things including entering 14 cyl instead of 16,
purging formatting etc. but I think none of that worked. (based on some
earlier posts and guesswork)
>
> I now need to download the patches. Do I really need all of them in the
FAQ with 5/98. It comes with a separate CD to patch up earlier versions of
2.6 Maybe the Tadpole stuff is on it. Does anyone know?
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
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