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Operating Systems SCO SCO507 not recognizing entire disk space on install Post 302355694 by asab on Wednesday 23rd of September 2009 12:07:12 PM

09-23-2009

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SCO507 not recognizing entire disk space on install

Hello, I'm trying to install 507 on an HP G5 ML350 server, and I've hit a snag. The installation goes fine until I try to customize the Unix partition on the harddrive--SCO will only see 50 GB of disk space (49852 to be exact).

I've installed an HP P400 Smart Array Controller and set up 2 arrays of 3 300GB hdds each, in RAID 5 for both. All hdds are detected on boot, with the correct size showing up in the raid setup screens. At the SCO installation boot prompt, I use the following boot string:

defbootstr link=hpsas hd=Sdsk Sdsk=hpsas(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(0,0,0)

I insert the hba disk from the 5.790 EFS pack and install the btld driver no problems. The disk shows up in the hwconfig list and installation begins. The filesystem setup will allow me to customize both arrays, but they're both capped at 50GB. We have tried to proceed with the installation and examine the disk space afterwards, but there is no unused space; still only 50GB detected.

I've tried using hba drivers from the 5.770 EFS pack. Tried different array configurations, even just using one of the 300GB drives and it always shows up as 50GB. Tried using the onboard 200i raid controller with the same drivers and bootstring with the same results.

I tried to install SCO 6.0 on the machine and the correct of amount of disk space was detected, but I'd like to figure out why 507 will not work. We haven't used hard drives this big on 507 before. Is this the problem? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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installboot

installboot(1M) 														   installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk	       The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
		       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

	      example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
		   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

	   directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

	   second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

								    11 Apr 2005 						   installboot(1M)