Thanks to the answers and hints from: Michael Horton, Ryan Krenzischek, Julio Carrasco, Ric Anderson, Tim Chipman, "IIRC, the Blade-100 still uses an ATA-4 controller which maxs out somewhere around 127GB at the hardware level." (Ric Anderson) This seems to be the same limit as for a Ultra 5 according to this summary: 29 Nov 2004 14:41 Miriam von Zuben SUMMARY: Big disk in Ultra 5 May I suggest that this fact is being added to this list's FAQ: Subject: 5.11) * How do I use an EIDE/ATA disk larger than 8GB? Erwin On 12-Jan-2005 Erwin Broschinski wrote: | Hi | | I have mounted a 160GB Disk in a Blade 100 with Solaris 9 and only see this: | | iostat -E: | | dad1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 | Model: SAMSUNG SP1614N Revision: TM100-30 Serial No: S016J10XC08135 | Size: 137.44GB <137438952960 bytes> | | format: | | 1. c0t2d0 <SAMSUNG SP1614N cyl 255 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255> | /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@2,0 | | 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 | | I found the following solution to make at least some of the disk visible: | | erased the disk label: | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2 bs=1b count=16 | | and entered 65535 cylinders in format: | | format> type | | | AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES: | 0. ST315310A | 1. SAMSUNG SP1614N | 2. other | Specify disk type (enter its number)[1]: 2 | Enter number of data cylinders: | Enter number of data cylinders: 65535 | Enter number of alternate cylinders[2]: | Enter number of physical cylinders[65537]: | Enter number of heads: | Enter number of heads: 16 | Enter number of data sectors/track: 255 | Enter rpm of drive[3600]: 7200 | Enter format time[default]: | Enter cylinder skew[default]: | Enter track skew[default]: | Enter tracks per zone[default]: | Enter alternate tracks[default]: | Enter alternate sectors[default]: | Enter cache control[default]: | Enter prefetch threshold[default]: | Enter minimum prefetch[default]: | Enter maximum prefetch[default]: | Enter disk type name (remember quotes): "SAMSUNG SP1614N" | selecting c0t2d0 | [disk formatted, no defect list found] | format> pa | | PARTITION MENU: | 0 - change `0' partition | 1 - change `1' partition | 2 - change `2' partition | 3 - change `3' partition | 4 - change `4' partition | 5 - change `5' partition | 6 - change `6' partition | 7 - change `7' partition | select - select a predefined table | modify - modify a predefined partition table | name - name the current table | print - display the current table | label - write partition map and label to the disk | !<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return | quit | partition> pr | Current partition table (SAMSUNG SP1614N): | Total disk cylinders available: 65535 + 2 (reserved cylinders) | | Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks | 0 root wm 0 - 64 129.49MB (65/0/0) 265200 | 1 swap wu 65 - 129 129.49MB (65/0/0) 265200 | 2 backup wu 0 - 65534 127.50GB (65535/0/0) 267382800 | 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 usr wm 130 - 65534 127.25GB (65405/0/0) 266852400 | 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 | | | At least 127.5 GB for a 160 GB disk :^( | | Is this currently the upper limit? | | | Cheerz | Erwin | | | | | | ''`' | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O-O~~~~~~~ | Erwin Broschinski Tel: +41 1 632 4281 | Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology Fax: +41 1 632 1022 | ETH Zentrum CLU B2 E-Mail: broschi at id.ethz.ch | 8092 Zurich | Switzerland | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "Ceterum censeo, 'Parvam Mollim' esse delendam." (nach Cicero) _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 12 10:24:43 2005
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