Hello,
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... It seems that
the HD cannot be formatted / partitioned (?) in its entirety. I don't recall
exactly the wording but that's the feeling I got. THE HD is brand new, and I
could install FreeBSD without problems on it so...
After some thinking and some check on the net, I came to the conclusion that
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?
Daniel
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