> Solaris 2009-6 installed on a Toshiba A10 laptop; it is about 5 years > old. > > I attach a 1.5Tb USB external hard drive. On boot, Solaris complains > that it is too large for a 32 bit system. Consequentially, it doesn't > show up in rmformat. > > This drive had previously been plugged in to a 64 bit machine build > from the same Solaris installation - it worked fine. > > To test, I get out a Toshiba NB200 running a Intel® Atom™ processor > N270 and plug the hard drive in. Pulling up gparted it sees the drive > with no problem.
I don't see the confusion. If the system says as plain as day "too large for 32 bit system" ... chances are the disk is simply too large. Don't expect it to work unless you use a smaller drive, or a 64 bit system. You test the same drive on another 32 bit system and it works ... But what operating system is the 2nd system running? Solaris 2009-6? Linux? Something else? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
