adding big hard drives - 200 gb ide - to ultra 5
trying to add a 200 gb ide disk - Maxtor 6L200P0 -
into a ultra 5 is this possible ? and if yes, how to do it ?
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at console promptprobe-ide shows us the disk as Maxtor 6L200P0.
after booting Sol 9 from CDformat shows only 800 MB or 36 GB (with jumper cylinder limitation)
running format (within format), we get the error message:
"cannot format this drive . Please use Manufacturer supplied formatting utility."
what to do?
we suppossed to use at least 136 GB from this disk. IDE should support this. perhaps more too?
:) klaus-peter
[612 byte] By [
siethron] at [2007-11-25 23:01:13]
# 1
Hello Klaus-Peter,
<i>what to do?</i>
this is a very, very popular question.
Short answers:
No, you can't low-level format an IDE disk with format. The manufacturers (Maxtor) program running on a PC is required, but there is no need to low-level format.
You are aware of the 28-bit LBA limitation. To get the highest usable capacity, the geometry of the drive must be manually defined.
Follow the instructions by supporte (Alexandre) in the following thread
<b>How can I use my 160G Disk ? [message #7962]</b>
<a href="http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t= msg&goto=7962&rid=23&SQ=f5fea47409888e5ef8e23e9879112a2e " target="_blank"> http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&got o=7962</a>
Michael
maal at 2007-7-5 17:50:35 >
