[SunHELP] adding a disk to an ultra10

Greg sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Apr 4 12:27:31 CDT 2001


> I am trying to install an 80GB disk on an ultra10
> running solaris 7.  The disk (ide maxtor) is recognized
> by the system but it thinks that it is only 13.33 GB
> when I look at the partition table in format.

You need to be running Solaris 8 10/00 or later to use disks larger than
about 32GB on the Ultra 5/10.  Versions earlier than that will only use 80GB
modulo 32GB or roughly 14GB of the disk which is what you're seeing.

-greg




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