Disk > 137.44GB not supported in Blade 100/Solaris 9?

From: Erwin Broschinski (broschi@id.ethz.ch)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 07:56:37 EST


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

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Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology Fax: +41 1 632 1022
ETH Zentrum CLU B2 E-Mail: broschi at id.ethz.ch
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