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

[Wes Hofmann]

Helena (Peter?):

I experienced the same limitation about a year ago.  Evidently, the SCSI->IDE
converters they use in the SparcBook series were designed before the advent of
LBA, which is the addressing method that modern IDE drives use that allow them
to exceed 8GB.  The only way that I know of to get around this problem is
trying to find a SCSI->IDE converter that is LBA-enabled.  Frustrating, isn't
it?

Wes

--- Helena_Sderholm <helsod at algonet.se> wrote:
> 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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