Hi I just became aware of this thread. Sorry for my late response, but here is a bit more info in case it helps.
The legacy IDE support (i.e cmdk/ata drivers) had an issue with disks larger than 1TB. The symptom of having huge values for capacity or default VTOC slice size should be due to a sign extension problem. The fix for this problem is integrated in snv_101. See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6755358 In addition there was a problem in cmdk for disks > 2TB which is also fixed as of snv_99. Larger than 1TB disks are supported only in 64-bit kernel environment. cmdk target driver was not enforcing that, and as of snv_99 that is fixed and the driver will not attach to disks > 1TB in 32-bit kernel. During installation of snv_99 and later, or OpenSolaris 2008.11 and later, when booting from install media, we need at least 1GB memory to run the 64bit kernel by default. Otherwise, if the machine is not capable of running 64bit kernel or does not have enough memory, 32bit kernel will be booted during install and nodes for disks > 1TB won't be created. (Caveat, there is one exception for XVM PV guest installations for which the fix is in progress). I suspect the reported issue of disk not showing up in format with OpenSolaris 2008.11 is due to booting 32bit kernel. Regards, --shidokht -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
