Maxtor 200G drive in Solaris 10 on x86 box

Hello,

I'm trying to install a Maxtor 6B200R0 200G ATA133 drive on a Solaris 10 01/06 x86 box. The drive is correctly recognized by the BIOS, and shows up when I boot Solaris as /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0. I can select the disk with the format utility as well, and have created a single slice with fdisk that spans the entire disk. I was able to label it after that. However, I am unable to format the disk. Solaris format tells me "Cannot format this drive. Please use your Manufacturer supplied formatting utility". Huh?

Do I need to create an /etc/format.dat entry for this drive? I didn't need to do this during the install on a 60G Western Digital ATA100 drive. Is the drive size an issue?

I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. About to boot a gentoo live cd and see if Linux can correctly see the entire drive and format it, just as a test to make sure its working.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[943 byte] By [swimlappy] at [2007-11-25 22:58:17]