From: Erwin Broschinski (broschi@id.ethz.ch)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 10:24:11 EST
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
|
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