Thank you for the responses with regards to my problem
There were a few suggestions but I could only try editing the format.dat
and using boot -r, both of which did not help.
It seems that the system could only support up to a maximum size of 8
or 9GB.
There are a few possibilities though
1. SUN firmware could be required for the hard disk
2. The version of OS (the os is 2.5.1 instead of 2.7, it was a mistake
on my part)
3. BIOS compatibility
I have tried to send a mail to SUN directly but there was no technical
support e-mail address available.
Anyway
I would like to convey my special thanks to the following people who
replied to my mail
Chad Price
David Foster
Matthew Stier
Don Krause
Jaya Shankar
Nitin Gizare
Riccardo Veraldi
Vinnie
Michael Wang
Original Question
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Need some advice regarding this matter.
Is there an way to configure a SUN Ultra 10 to accept a 17.2GB IDE hard
disk?
Problem Description
I'm trying to install an additional IDE hard disk (slave) on a SUN Ultra
10 workstation, however the system only detected a size
of 7.87GB instead of 17.2GB.
Hard Disk Info
Brand: Seagate
Model: ST317221A U8
Firmware: 3.03
Size: 17.2GB
Cyl: 16383
Hds: 16
Sect: 63
System Info
Model: SUN Ultra 10 workstation
Interface: IDE
OS: Unix Solaris 7
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