65533 cylinder limit on solaris for hardrives

From: Sreedharan, Anil (Anil.Sreedharan@celera.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 19:58:07 EDT


Hello everbody,

Let me first present a brief summary of my situation. I have created a
volume on a Compaq EMA12000 which is 330gb in size the number of cylinders
on the virtual drive is "210794"(c/h/s 210794/12/255), i need the volume on
a e450 connected to the CPQ EMA12000 via a brocade silkworm2800. The E450
has a JNI FCE6410 HBA.
Now to the problem part, the volume appears as a 136gb drive on the e450, i
noticed that the number of cylinders is truncated to 65533. I tried to
adjust the disk geometry via ...........format-->type but any value beyond
65533 for cylinder is out of range. Please let me know if there is any
solution to this predicament that i am in, any help is appreciated. ( I did
notice that some other systems bypass the cylinder issue by increasing the
number of heads).

Anil S
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