UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all

I am facing a strange problem.
I am using a sun ultra10 spark machine.
first i took a 20gb IDE hard disk and installed solaris 5.8.
But due to some requirement i have to reinstall the OS but this time solaris 2.6.
and now the hard disk capacity is only showing 8gb.

Where the 12gb gone
i could not find any reason.
please help.
sd i remove the hard disk format it in NT environment and i will get 20gb?

please suggest
Thanks
Prafulla

The system should see it as a 20GB hard drive. Ultra10 supports both Solaris 8 and 2.6. Specs as follows:

Up to two 20-GB, 7200-rpm EIDE hard disks
Operating System Solaris 8
Solaris 7 Hardware: 3/99
Solaris 2.6 Hardware: 5/98
Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 11/97
UltraSPARC-IIi, 440 MHz
Cache 2 MB (external)
Memory 168-pin EDO JEDEC, ECC error correction with 4 slots, 128 MB up to 1 GB (minimum factory-configured system is 128 MB) with DRAM speed of 50 ns, and DIMM sizes of: 32, 64, 128, and 256 MB (installed in pairs)


Where are you seeing it as a 8GB drive? Did you double check that the drive you have installed IS a 20GB drive?

You should be able to boot into single user from cdrom and go into format to see the size of the disk drive.

Hi.

Ya it is 20GB hard disk only.while installing solaris 2.6 after installing solris 5.8 it is showing total disk space available as 8gb only.

i have faced the same problem previouly also.i can't find out the solutions.

if you need any more information ..do post it .

thanks n regards
Praful

Hallo,
Please post the output of the command
probe-ide at the OBP.
There you can see wat kind of harddisk it realy is.
At the two first columns you can identify the model number of
the primary master.
Send it please.