Add 80gb disk on Ultra 10
I'm newbie in sun plattaform and I 've tried to add a new drive to make a image of actual disk (9.1Gb). I read old topics about this issue (How can I use my 160G disk, and others) and I wasn't able to use my Western Digital 80Gb (WDC WD800BB).
When I use format command, it shows:
0 - c0t0d0 <ST39120A, cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec>
1 - c0t1d0 <WDC WD800BB-001HC0, cyl 23987 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
I choose 1 then choose TYPE and OTHER option, I tried to put some values (9729c/2ac/63h/255s, 38268c/2ac/16h/255s and others), I use the PARTITION option (to make th same 1st layout), but when I LABEL the disk, the format command shows some errors (VTOC... Error label disk).
Does anyone can I help me with the format command?
My system is: Sun Ultra 10 - OPB 3.25 - SunOS 5.7 Generic_106541-16
[844 byte] By [
sparck] at [2007-11-26 8:54:26]
# 1
The issue may be with your choice of which Solaris you've installed.
The following link suggests you must install Solaris 8 HW 10/00 or newer
to use any IDE drives larger than 32GB.
http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q5.64
(Section 5.64 of the Solaris 2 FAQ)
Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are each a two-CD download.
Solaris 10 needs more CD's for its installation.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Software/
Try one.If it works, then use it.
If it doesn't work, then wipe the drive and return to the forum.
# 3
Is it the application media that is missing? ( CATIA, etc ? )
I cannot help with that issue.
Solaris 2.6 is about to go EOSL, anyhow.
It has its limitations and you're experiencing one of them.
It cannot work with larger filesystem structures,
any more than Win95A could read FAT32.
The only other hardware answer that I can think of
is to invest in a SCSI card and use an externally attached disk pack.
Solaris 2.6 does not have the same disk size issue with SCSI drives.
