On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Lorenzo wrote: > My problem is that it only recognise a maximum of 30GB (glurps !! :-) after > setting up with fdisk utilities. > I tried different specifications in fdisk but no success, i'm stuck with the > number of Cylinders : the drive specifies 266305 and fdisk don't let me > specify more than 65535. > > Does anyone have an idea/suggestion/tips to help me ?
You have to increase the number of heads or sectors. Alternatively, if it is not going to be a boot disk, you can make a DOS partition table (maybe in a x86 PC). Linux/Sparc handles it with no problems (see "Advanced Patition Selection" in the linux kernel). -- Jan Houstek