Capacity recognized problem with Hard Drive On Sunblade 150

tuxrom · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Hi,
I've got a Sunblade 150
I've install a new hard drive instead of the 40 GB, the new one is a Maxtor 200 Go 8mo cache
when I install a system, the hard Drive is recognized as a 130 GB (under solaris 10, freebsd 5.3 and gentoo)

Do you know the method to make my HD recognized with the good capacity?

riposte · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 69 Location: New Zealand

I suspect that your ide controller is going to max out at 137gb.
try searching sunsolve to confirm.

tuxrom · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Thank You,
I've got the response of Sun :

Nope. Can't do it. It's a hardware limitation of the IDE controller, and third-party controllers will not work. If you need a lot of disk capacity, then go with external SCSI or FCAL peripherals.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,519303,00.asp

Bill
Sun Microsystems