[SunHELP] Large disk in an Ultra5 running Solaris 8

Sun Feb 9 02:07:22 CST 2003

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:01:08 -0700, you wrote:

>I am trying to install a 40GB HD in my Sparc Ultra5 and it is being
>reconized as a 5.6GB drive. I could not find any entries about this. the
>drive is IDE as well. Any help would be appreatied.

Just upgrade to Solaris 8 10/00 or later and erase the disk label with dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=512 count=16
Older Solaris versions can't use large IDE disks.

Mit freundlichen Gr|_en

Dipl.-Ing. Frank-Christian Kr|gel
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