Hello,
First of all. I am sorry if I asked this question to the wrong forum. I will
send a mail to opensolaris-help as well. I am just a beginner on these
forums... ;)
> >This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X
> > based PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
> >It did not went long, Solaris was unable to handle the HD... After some
> >thinking and some check on the net, I suppose it has to do with the 48bits
> >LBA issue (The 128 GB barrier). Back in the Solaris 6, 7, 8 days I had
> >similar issues on a Dell machine with HDs > 8 GB.
> >So now I wonder if I have problems with the BIOS of my motherboard or with
> >Solaris. According to the ASUS website, the P5 serie support 48 bits LBA.
> > So, here is my question: Does OpenSolaris support 48 bits LBA?
>
> What problems are you seeing?
Well, it gives me 3 errors. I do not have the wording in front of me but it
seems that it cannot handle the whole HD (That's my understanding). I am on
x86, I have one HD that I want to use at its maximum. Once I replied to all
the questions from the installer, the installation procedure starts and then
it stops almost at once, the system not being able to format (?) / handle (?)
the HD.
I tried b69 and b70 with the same unfortunate results.
The installtion check 1.2 tool tells me that Solaris 'should' install without
problems on my hardware.
> Solaris handles larger disks just fine (many of us run systems with larger
> and much larger disks).
I have IDE, not SATA.
> I did see a message just now that the new installer seems to have issues
> with larger HDs.
I tried the text version, the graphic version, b69 and b70 with the same
outcome....
FreeBSD handles the whole HD without problems (apparently).
Daniel
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