Summary: Maxtor 91021U2 IDE on Solaris 2.6 Ultra 10
2007-12-24 19:29:00
>Hey folks,
>
>Anybody have a working format.dat entry for this disk? The person who
>installed the drive just took the defaults and got 2G worth of space
>when it should actually be about 9G. Rather than building my own and
>getting one of the parameters wrong, I was hoping someone else had done
>this :)
>
>I was also thinking of booting from CD to Solaris 8 and seeing if 8 knew
>any better about formatting this drive and then just newfs'ing it on
>2.6.
>
>Thanks and of course I'll summarize.
>
No help from the net, but here is the summary of what I figured out.
I had used large IDE drives on U10s without problem when using Solaris 8 so
I thought I would boot into Solaris 8 from a CD and format/partition the
drive there and then newfs it on Solaris 2.6. Solaris 8 didn't think the
drive was any bigger (2G), so in "format" I specified the parameters of
the drive by hand and Solaris 8 said.. "Cool... 8Gig..". At that point I
booted into 2.6 and got into format to check the partitions. Format said
the drive had a bad label. That is to say that the OS had it pegged at the
correct size but the drive itself insisted that it was only 2G. During
this mess I had noticed an "extra" jumper on the drive.. Pulled that
jumper off, booted back into 2.6, and everything was ok. Really odd. So
that is more of a "here is what I mucked through" than a Summary.
Tim
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