Solaris

I've just replaced the secondary disk drive (was 4 Gb) with a Seagate Barracuda 7200 200 Gb. However the OS seems to think this is only 500 Mb and a spin speed of 5400, although it correct recognises the drive as Seagate ST3200822A.

I take it that it still thinks the old drive is attached. How do I get it to recognise this new drive??

The other drive has been left as the master with the OS install.

Box is - SUN Ultra 5/10 Model 440
Unix is - SunOS 5.8

After installing the drive, did you boot -r ?

Code:

ok > boot -r   ## from ok prompt
# reboot -- -r    ## from command line

Is the second drive set as slave or cable select? I usually set them to cable select. It just seems to work better.

Yes, did that. That all seemed to go OK.

Try "probe-ide" at ok> boot prom and see if you are able to see the disk.

Check the jumper settings etc.. and try the same command again "probe-ide". If it still does not come up... then the problem is clear that Sun Ultra 5/10 has no support for 200 gb disk.

-Aditya

probe-ide showed the drive as does using format from the command line, the problem is that it thinks its a 500 Mb drive when in fact its a 200 Gb.

I think I will go and have a chat with SUN.

Thanks for your help.

I belive the drive is NOT supported and i think you might have to update the OpenBoot prom firmware. There are updates avilable from sunsolve for OpenBoot on Ultra SPARC 5/10.

anyways go ahead and confirm with SUN.

-Aditya