martin b wrote: > > #0.) My experience was SPARC only, not x86 at all > #1.) I didn't know what I know today in terms of, > whether or not the recently added (over a year ago) > Solaris_sparc support includes LBA48 (and therefore > "big disks"), or not. > --->> Obviously not! > > I used the opportunity to test that first, a few > months ago when I purchased an additional hdd > (Seagate 250GB, ata133), before I eventually put that > disk into a USB/ieee1394a combo enclosure for use via > ieee1394 on a sb2k (do the that [or USB2.0], if you > can [that is, if you don't need that drive to be > bootable]). > > So LBA48 does not appear to be supported on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Only ca. 128GB or so were recognized, no matter > whatever I tried inside the format utility. > Just in order to correct myself after circa a year ...
I had exactly the same experience: I bought two 500GB PATA drives to attach to my SunBlade 150 (Sparc [EMAIL PROTECTED]); at first I tried to connect them through FireWire with a USB2/FW box, but whenever the drives are accessed simultaneously, one of them locks up, and the system responds with: Sep 2 17:09:57 sunshine scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd2 at scsa13941: target 0 lun 0 Sep 2 17:09:57 sunshine genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd2 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Sep 2 17:09:57 sunshine scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd3 at scsa13942: target 0 lun 0 Sep 2 17:09:57 sunshine genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd3 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Sep 2 17:12:59 sunshine scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 (sd3): Sep 2 17:12:59 sunshine SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command When I connect just one, everything works fine, I can see the drive through 'rmformat', and I can format and use them as I do right now. Anyway, to be able to connect both drives, I tried a PCI IDE controller, and looking through the forums I read good experiences with the SIL 0680 chipset, so I bought one of those (they are quite cheap), and took care to choose the non-raid version. Well, my experience was like yours: it recognized the drive, but it gave weird messages when I started 'format', about the label being corrupt; when I tried to label it correctly, it 'saw' no more than 127GB, the infamous LBA48 limit. So it seems the driver in Solaris is to blame, because the card definitely supports drives > 127GB, and is even ATA6 compliant. So no show, I was hoping to use the drives with ZFS or the 'old' Solaris SVM, but it seems I need either newer hardware or some other trick. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
