> I'm unable to get my SNV 117 to see a 1,5 TB SATA drive I just got. ... > I've tried adding the 1,5TB as the secondary drive, and tried both > 'reboot -- -r' and 'devfsadm' but the drive wasn't listed by 'format'. > I tried booting from the SNV 117 x86 DVD, to test installing on the > drive, the install app complained about 'no drive'.
Is the drive listed in "iostat -En" output? One thing that could be confusing is that the 32-bit cmdk driver silently rejects disks > 1TB [1], while the sd driver (USB, S-ATA HDD on S-ATA framework, ...) at least gives an explanation on the console what is going on [2]. [1] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/dktp/disk/cmdk.c#389 389 #ifdef _ILP32 390 { 391 struct tgdk_geom phyg; 392 (void) dadk_getphygeom(DKTP_DATA, &phyg); 393 if ((phyg.g_cap - 1) > DK_MAX_BLOCKS) { 394 (void) dadk_close(DKTP_DATA); 395 goto fail2; 396 } 397 } 398 #endif [2] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/scsi/targets/sd.c#7790 7790 if (capacity > DK_MAX_BLOCKS) { 7791 #ifdef _LP64 7792 if ((capacity + 1) > 7793 SD_GROUP1_MAX_ADDRESS) { 7794 /* 7795 * Enable descriptor format 7796 * sense data so that we can 7797 * get 64 bit sense data 7798 * fields. 7799 */ 7800 sd_enable_descr_sense(ssc); 7801 } 7802 #else 7803 /* 32-bit kernels can't handle this */ 7804 scsi_log(SD_DEVINFO(un), 7805 sd_label, CE_WARN, 7806 "disk has %llu blocks, which " 7807 "is too large for a 32-bit " 7808 "kernel", capacity); 7809 7810 #if defined(__i386) || defined(__amd64) 7811 /* 7812 * 1TB disk was treated as (1T - 512)B 7813 * in the past, so that it might have 7814 * valid VTOC and solaris partitions, 7815 * we have to allow it to continue to 7816 * work. 7817 */ 7818 if (capacity -1 > DK_MAX_BLOCKS) 7819 #endif 7820 goto spinup_failed; 7821 #endif -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
