On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Ian C. Sison wrote: > .. > > It's SCSI so i don't think that there's going to be any problem. > > Doesn't the scsi driver not even care about the CHS? CHS matters only > > if it is going to be a boot drive and the bios has to boot off the big > > drive. That's where the bios CHS limitations come in. > > Yeah. Actually in the demo unit we got the C/H/S is 9725/254/63. So what I > did is set C/H/S to some arbitrary value whose product is the same as > 9725*254*63. > > Unfortunately for Sun it seems Hmax = 27 and Smax = 255. That means to get > 9725/254/63 (which is "only" 76GB) requires 22691/27/254 setup. > > For a full 960GB partition it would be a lot larger. The solaris > format(1M) command has some upper limits on the C/H/S it will take > unfortunately.. so I can't address the whole darn drive.
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