SUMMARY: Large disk in Netra X1 ?

Thanks to Tim Chapman for the pointer that allowed me to google for the
complete answer. Thanks to:
Edmunds Chris
Mao YS
Roland Merk
Juergen Waiblinger

for letting me know they were out of office.

This thread on the Sun support forums has the complete information on how
to use format to make the X1 recognize 137GB:
http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&goto=7912&rid=0#msg_7912

The rest of the disk cannot be used as the IDE controller doesn't support
more than 24-bit addressing. This is good enough for my needs.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Christophe Dupre wrote:

> I'm trying to upgrade the internal disks of a Netra X1 to use as an FTP
> server. I took out the factory 20GB disk and replaced it with a new 160GB
> disk (Seagate ST3160023A). The disk is seen properly from openboot:
> ok probe-ide
>   Device 0  ( Primary Master )
>           ATA Model: ST3160023A
>
> but format sees the disk as having only 0.5GB:
> Primary label contents:
>
> Volume name = <        >
> ascii name  = <ST3160023A cyl 255 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255>
> pcyl        =  257
> ncyl        =  255
> acyl        =    2
> nhead       =   16
> nsect       =  255
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders       Size            Blocks
>   0 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   1 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   2     backup    wu       0 - 254      508.01MB    (255/0/0) 1040400
>   3 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   4 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   5 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   6 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>   7 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)         0
>
> I have several V100 with disks upgraded to 80GB without problem, so what's
> going on with this one ?
>
>
>
> --
> Christophe Dupre
> System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Troy, NY        USA
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System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY        USA
Phone: (518) 276-2578  -  Fax: (518) 276-4886
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