How to format 250Gb IDE disk

I'm using Sun Ultra 5/10.
I'm trying to add new 250 Gb IDE hard disk. But all I can do is format 127Gb. So, I realized there is LBA limitation. Is it possible to break this threshold?

No.
There's no workaround. Not for IDE.
If you need considerable storage capacity, then go for external SCSI.
Those computers are vintage 1997-1998 hardware designs.
The onboard IDE chipsets do not "do" 48bit LBA.
There aren't any PeeCee PCI cards that would be recognized
by the systemboard firmware.

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Yes, you were right. The partitions were totally different. Here is what I saw:
For c1t0d0:
# format
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0For c1t1d0:
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0       root    wm       0 - 12865       62.43GB    (12866/0/0) 130924416
1       swap    wu   12866 - 14079        5.89GB    (1214/0/0)   12353664
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wm   14080 - 14086       34.78MB    (7/0/0)         71232
4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0So then I ran the following:
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fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.Then I rechecked the partition table for c1t1d0:
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0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
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3 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
4 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0Woo-hoo!! It matches the first disk now! :)
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Make sure to wait until resilver is done before rebooting.
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pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
        continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 0.40% done, 0h58m to go
config:
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        rpool         ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t0d0s0 ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t1d0s0 ONLINE       0     0     0 30.3M resilvered
errors: No known data errorsBoo-yah!!! ++Does little dance++
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# installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0I think I'm starting to understand this now. I also shutdown the server to the OpenBoot prompt and booted off of the new disk and it worked! Also, my bootup time to login has drastically decreased - I would say it's about half the time it was before I added the mirror disk. So I believe the server is properly reading from both disks simultaneously in order to get better bandwidth. Cool! :)
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