[Sunhelp] Re: New Harddrive for SPARCbook 3GX

[Matt Thomas]

At 06:34 PM 11/19/99 , Wes Hofmann wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>Today, I received my new Hitachi 10.05GB IDE harddrive for my SPARCbook 3GX.
>I was fortunate enough to receive a 2GB disk with my SPARCbook when I
>purchased it so it was a simple task to simply place the scsi->ide converter
>card on my new drive and then plug it in to the system.  However, the
>SPARCbook refuses to see it's actual size.  Here is the disk information:
>
>size: 10.05GB
>cylinders: 16383
>heads: 16
>sectors: 63
>
>Now, from inside the Solaris install program, format sees the correct number
>of cylinders, heads, and sectors, but says the drive is a 7.8 GB drive.  And
>nothing I can do seems to change that.  Also, after I label the drive using
>format, when I get to the disk layout section in the install program, it
>insists that the drive (partition 3) is about 8.1 GB. 


Because the IDE to SCSI converter has the C/H/S limit and is not using LBA mode.
The limit restricts you to 8GB.
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