Max Disk Size on Solaris 8

I have applied the Recommended Patch Cluster to my Solaris 8 (6/00) Ultra 10 System, but Format still sees only 30G off my 100G IDE Slave Device. Pls let me know if there are any other patches to apply for the full HD size to be seen.
thanks
Jay

hello, I will check the Jumper Settings, which I think is set as slave. But have no idea how to do the delete vtoc and re-label. Can you please provide the instructions for these?
thanks
Jay

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Max. disk size in A1000?

Hi,
Does anybody know what the max. disk size is that works in a A1000 array? We have so far used 76GB disks in an 8 slot A1000.
Thanks

Hello Erwin,
SCSI is less limited than IDE. The next bigger size should work.
The Seagate ST3146707LC (146.8GB - 10000 RPM Ultra-320) and Fujitsu MAT3147NC (146.8GB - 10000 RPM Ultra-320) are listed as compatible.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/A1000/component s.html#Disks
Michael

D1000 Max Disk Size

I have found conflicting information. I am hoping one if the experts here can help. I am trying to find out what the max disk size is for the D1000's. The handbook says 73GB but the sunstore sells 146GB drives that are for the D1000. So which is it? I don't want to buy 12 x 146GB drives to find they won't work in that configuration.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/D1000/component s.html#Disks
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/D1000/D1000.htm l
Thanks!

Hello Andrew,
the 146GB disks are listed in the <b>Full Components List</b> (your first link). If you order the disks from Sun, you can confirm that information.
While the disks work in the D1000, you should keep in mind that the disk array is attached with Ultra40 and these disks are Ultra320. The disks are capable of a much higher transfer rate than the connection can support.
Michael

Disk size in Solaris 10

I have some confusion about disk subsystem in Solaris, i am trying to clarify from this forum.
I have recently installed Solaris 10 in one SPARC box. After i installed, the format gives the bellow output.
0 root wm 19491 - 29648 4.88GB (10158/0/0) 10239264
1 swap wu 0 - 4062 1.95GB (4063/0/0) 4095504
2 backup wm 0 - 29648 14.25GB (29649/0/0) 29886192
From the above output, is the size of my disk is 14 GB ?, or the size of my disk is 14+2+5=21 GB ?
I am trying to learn ZFS, so i want another partition in this disk so that i create ZFS on that partition.
I have gone to single user mode by using CD. I assumed that, from the above "format" command output, i thought i have 21GB of disk size and 14GB of free space. So i created another partition with 14GB. Now the format command gives bellow output.
0 root wm 19491 - 29648 4.88GB (10158/0/0) 10239264
1 swap wu 0 - 4062 1.95GB (4063/0/0) 4095504
2 backup wm 0 - 29648 14.25GB (29649/0/0) 29886192
3 reserved wm 0 - 29127 14.00GB (29128/0/0) 29361024
When i am creating ZFS, it given me a warning that the the partition i have specified is spanned into root partition (first partition), and it mentioned to use "-f" option.
With "-f", it created successfully.
If i assume now that the size of my disk is 14GB only then,
(1) how come two partitions are pointing to the same area in the disk ?
(2) How come two different filesystems are pointing to the same area ?
Please anyone clarify my doubts. Thank you.

Assuming a standard labeled disk it is standrad practice to have section/slice 2 being 'whole disk' for purposes of 'backup'. That would tend to indicate you have a 14GB disk. A prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2 (change the ?s to the right values) will give a little more on the disk geometry.
In the display from format column 4 is the start cylinder of the partition and column 5 is the end cylinder. From the first set out output it looks like cyclinders 4063 to 19490 are not allocated
In the second set you have created a new slice (section 3) that overlaps both sections 0 and 1 - which is generally considered to be bad!

Re-read disk size in Solaris 10 x86 / VMware

Hi
Using
# uname -a
SunOS host1 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
We have a 30G virtual disk, on top of which a UFS filesystem is living, mounted, and used.
The Virtual disk has been resized to 40G.
I know I need to change the fdisk partition size, after which i can change the "format" partition size, then use growfs.
But I don't know how to get S10 to recognise the new size for the disk.
fdisk tells me
Total disk size is 3916 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition   Status
Type
Start   End   Length
=========   ======
============ =====   ===   ======   ===
1
Active
Solaris2
1 3915
3915
100
# prtvtoc -h /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s2
       0      0    00      16065 62846280 62862344   /xxx
       2      5    01          0 62862345 62862344
       8      1    01          0     16065     16064
# df -h /xxx
Filesystem             size   used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0       30G    29G   498M    99%    /xxx
On Linux I might use partprobe or blockdev --rereadpt but on Solaris?
Cheers
KM

Hello
this document should help, but make a backkup before running it
How to expand a UFS Lun in Solaris 10 (Doc ID 1451858.1)
Regards
Eze

How to determine physical disk size on solaris

I would like to know whether there is a simple method available for determining physical hard disk sizes on Sun sparc machines. On HP based machines it is simple:
1. run "ioscan -fnC disk" - to find all disk devices and there raw device target address ie /dev/rdsk/c0t2d2
2. run "diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c0t2d2" - display the attributes of the physical disk including size in Kbyes.
This simple process allows me create simple scripts that I can use to automate collation of audit data for a large number of HP machines.
On Sun based machines I've looked at the prtvtoc, format, and devinfo commands and have had no joy. Methods and suggestion will be well appriciated.

ok,
format should say .....eg
type format ..
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80>
if this is not a Sun disk, and you do not get the info,
select the required disk and select partition and then print. This will display what you need.
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How to increase disk size in solaris

Hi all
I have two disk c1t0d0s0 / c1t0d0s7
I do haven't space in disk /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
run df -h
/dev/dsk/*c1t0d0s0* 8,8G 7,4G 1,3G 86% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 3,4G 984K 3,4G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
8,8G 7,4G 1,3G 86% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 3,4G 72K 3,4G 1% /tmp
swap 3,4G 40K 3,4G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/*c1t0d0s7* 20G 21M 20G 1% /export/home
I want increasing the space in c1t0d0s0. when I installed Solaris 10 I do not looked attentively the size allocated
Thanks

Hi,
As I understand, you want to increase the size of the root partition (where you installed Solaris) which resides in c1t0d0s0. I think it can be done using Concatenations from Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
I have tried it in non root partition like /export/home and it is very easy.
metainit -f d0 2 1 c1t0d0s7 1 c2t0d0s7 //this will create volume d0 as a concatenation
growfs -M /export/home /dev/md/rdsk/d0 //this will grow the /export/home partition
Regards,
Rei

Max Disk Size Recognized ??

I have a 160 Gb disk, but Disk Utility only recognizes it at 128 Gb. Is there a way I can get the system to recognize all of the disk capacity? Thanks.

That seems like it's not seeing all of it. At first I was going to tell you that you will not get all of the 160. But only 128 is a bit much.
I have 4 hard drives in my G4.
They are:
2 120 Gig (111.8 and 114.5 seen).
2 250 Gig (233.8 seen on both).
Is this your primary drive? if not, can you backup your files and try erasing and partitioning it?
If you can't do this, try calling AppleCare if your computer is still under warranty.

Is there a max SATA disk size in OSX 10.4.11 and G4/1.25?

Hello,
I am trying to set up a G4/1.25 (2 gig in memory) as a fileserver with a SATA card and 2 x 3 TB seagate disks. This is the setup:
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/mdd-power-mac-g4-1.25-ghz.html
http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1v4/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST3000DM001/
The system is OSX 10.4.11. I am unable to initialize the disks in disk utility. The process starts but then halts and says that it can not continue.
My question is if there is a max disk size in OSX 10.4.11?
Any help greatly appriceated.
Best regards,
Ingolfur Bruun

Hello again,
I tried to work my way around armed with your input and succeeded
By using a FireWire dock I was able to see the disks in 10.4.11. What I did was to partition the disks with ONE partition in Disk Utility and then format with GUID partitioning scheme instead of the Apple Partition Mapping scheme which I had done before. And as I am using a ATA disk as a startup disk it dosen't matter if the 3 TB disks are not bootable. They will only be used for data, not as system disks.
You saved my day! Thanks again.
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MS 6147 max memory and disk sizes

For the MS 6147 can anybody confirm the max Hard disk size and max memory.
It will not recognise the 40Gb HD I am trying to fit, and only recognises half of the 256Mb memeory simm I have fitted.
The BIOS version is 1.9 but I think that is a 'special' by Packard Bell. The MSI BIOS download site makes no mention of disk problems rectified right up to V1.8 which is the latest, with the exception of one for the ZX chipset only which addresses EDMA 66 problem.
Anybody got a definitive answer on this?

Supports a maximum memory size of 256MB (8M x 8) or
512MB (16M x 4) registered DIMM only
how many chips on dimm is what counts with older boards
go to drive makers web site get jumper settings to limit it to 32gb and try

Solaris 10 Max Partition size

Hi,
I would like to know the maximum partition size that Solaris 10 can support/create.
We have a Sun StorEdge 6920 system with a 8 TBytes, based on 146 GBytes Hard Disks.
Is it possible to create a 4 TBytes partition?
if not, any suggestions are appreciated.

Look to EFI, allows filesystems built to large TB sizes if you needed.
Per SUN:
Multi-terabyte file systems, up to 16 Tbyte, are now supported under UFS, Solaris Volume Manager, and VERITAS's VxVM on machines running a 64-bit kernel. Solaris cannot boot from a file system greater than 1 Tbyte, and the fssnap command is not currently able to create a snapshot of a multi-terabyte file system. Individual files are limited to 1 Tbyte, and the maximum number of files per terabyte on a UFS file system is 1 million.
The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) disk label, compatible with the UFS file system, allows for physical disks exceeding 1 Tbyte in size. For more information on the EFI disk label, see System Administration Guide: Basic Administration on docs.sun.com. "
Found this at:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/solaris_express.html
So you may want to look into EFI, which is different way of partitioning the disk.

Max UFS filesystems size for Solaris 2.X

What are the max limits on UFS filesystem sizes for Solaris 2.6, 8 and 9?
Thanks

It's called a "search". ;) SunSolve Info Doc 76856.
Solaris 2.6 - 8 -- 1 TB limit
Solaris 9 and higher - 16 TB limit
Individual files, however, can only be about 1,012 GB.

Large page sizes on Solaris 9

I am trying (and failing) to utilize large page sizes on a Solaris 9 machine.
# uname -a
SunOS machinename.lucent.com 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
I am using as my reference "Supporting Multiple Page Sizes in the Solaris� Operating System" http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0304/817-6242.pdf
and
"Taming Your Emu to Improve Application Performance (February 2004)"
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0204/817-5489.pdf
The machine claims it supports 4M page sizes:
# pagesize -a
8192
65536
524288
4194304
I've written a very simple program:
main()
int sz = 10*1024*1024;
int x = (int)malloc(sz);
print_info((void**)&x, 1);
while (1) {
int i = 0;
while (i < (sz/sizeof(int))) {
x[i++]++;
I run it specifying a 4M heap size:
# ppgsz -o heap=4M ./malloc_and_sleep
address 0x21260 is backed by physical page 0x300f5260 of size 8192
pmap also shows it has an 8K page:
pmap -sx `pgrep malloc` | more
10394: ./malloc_and_sleep
Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Pgsz Mode Mapped File
00010000 8 8 - - 8K r-x-- malloc_and_sleep
00020000 8 8 8 - 8K rwx-- malloc_and_sleep
00022000 3960 3960 3960 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
00400000 6288 6288 6288 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
(The last 2 lines above show about 10M of heap, with a pgsz of 8K.)
I'm running this as root.
In addition to the ppgsz approach, I have also tried using memcntl and mmap'ing ANON memory (and others). Memcntl gives an error for 2MB page sizes, but reports success with a 4MB page size - but still, pmap reports the memcntl'd memory as using an 8K page size.
Here's the output from sysinfo:
General Information
Host Name is machinename.lucent.com
Host Aliases is loghost
Host Address(es) is xxxxxxxx
Host ID is xxxxxxxxx
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
Manufacturer is Sun (Sun Microsystems)
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
System Model is Blade 1000
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
ROM Version is OBP 4.10.11 2003/09/25 11:53
Number of CPUs is 2
CPU Type is sparc
App Architecture is sparc
Kernel Architecture is sun4u
OS Name is SunOS
OS Version is 5.9
Kernel Version is SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-11 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
Kernel Information
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
SysConf Information
Max combined size of argv[] and envp[] is 1048320
Max processes allowed to any UID is 29995
Clock ticks per second is 100
Max simultaneous groups per user is 16
Max open files per process is 256
System memory page size is 8192
Job control supported is TRUE
Savid ids (seteuid()) supported is TRUE
Version of POSIX.1 standard supported is 199506
Version of the X/Open standard supported is 3
Max log name is 8
Max password length is 8
Number of processors (CPUs) configured is 2
Number of processors (CPUs) online is 2
Total number of pages of physical memory is 262144
Number of pages of physical memory not currently in use is 4368
Max number of I/O operations in single list I/O call is 4096
Max amount a process can decrease its async I/O priority level is 0
Max number of timer expiration overruns is 2147483647
Max number of open message queue descriptors per process is 32
Max number of message priorities supported is 32
Max number of realtime signals is 8
Max number of semaphores per process is 2147483647
Max value a semaphore may have is 2147483647
Max number of queued signals per process is 32
Max number of timers per process is 32
Supports asyncronous I/O is TRUE
Supports File Synchronization is TRUE
Supports memory mapped files is TRUE
Supports process memory locking is TRUE
Supports range memory locking is TRUE
Supports memory protection is TRUE
Supports message passing is TRUE
Supports process scheduling is TRUE
Supports realtime signals is TRUE
Supports semaphores is TRUE
Supports shared memory objects is TRUE
Supports syncronized I/O is TRUE
Supports timers is TRUE
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
Device Information
SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
cpu0 is a "900 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+" CPU
cpu1 is a "900 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+" CPU
Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem might be?
Thanks in advance.
Mike

I ran your program on Solaris 10 (yet to be released) and it works.
Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Pgsz Mode Mapped File
00010000 8 8 - - 8K r-x-- mm
00020000 8 8 8 - 8K rwx-- mm
00022000 3960 3960 3960 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
00400000 8192 8192 8192 - 4M rwx-- [ heap ]
I think you don't this patch for Solaris 9
i386 114433-03
sparc 113471-04
Let me know if you encounter problem even after installing this patch.
Saurabh Mishra

Need info about max HDD size available for Satellite Pro M30-813

Hello,
The following question is mainly to be addressed to authorized Toshiba support personnel. What exactly is the limitation of a maximum size of an internal HDD that I could use with my Satellite Pro M30-813?
Recently, I have bought and installed seagate 160 GB SATA drive, onto which I have successfully installed WXP Pro and have been running it for quite a while with no problems. Recently, I have been copying large amount of data from an external hard drive to my new internal disk, and as the files were being copied as I noticed having about 50 GB free space left, I had experienced windows "delayed write failed" and a massive partition failure with no possibility to recover data. The system would no longer boot and the whole MBR was damaged. As the result, I have lost all data on my new disk.
Although, I realize that Toshiba is not responsible for additional hardware that I use with my laptop and that is not officially supported by Toshiba, I am certain that as an end user of a Toshiba product I have the right to know about a max HDD size limitation information for my notebook model. Therefore, I request Toshiba technical support representative to give me a straight official answer to my question.
Thank you in advance,
Andrejs
(You may also contact me privately at my e-mail address)

Hi Andrew
> The following question is mainly to be addressed to authorized Toshiba support personnel
I think you are in the wrong area if you are looking for an answer from an authorized Toshiba support.
This is a Toshiba user-to-user forum! You will meet here Toshiba notebook owner and enthusiasts who share knowledge and tries solve problems but nobody from Tosh :(
I could provide my experience with the M30 Satellite and the HDD upgrade possibilities.
In my knowledge the Sat M30 supports a 40GB, 60GB and 80GB HDD for sure.
In my opinion you could use the 100GB HDD but bigger HDDs will not run and functions correctly.
So switch to a lower HDD size and enjoy the notebook!
Ive goggled a little bit and found compatible HDD and the part numbers
HITACHI GBC000Z810 -> 80GB
HITACHI GBC00014810 -> 80GB
TOSHIBA HDD2188B -> 80GB
HITACHI G8C0000Z610 -> 60GB
HITACHI G8BC00013610 -> 60GB
TOSHIBA HDD2183 -> 60GB
TOSHIBA HDD2184 -> 60GB
I hope this could help you a little bit!
Best regards

How can I get the disk information in Solaris 9

I am new to Solairs9. I use the format utility to list my partitions, but there are many unassigned partitions. I pasted the format response below:
# format
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c6413e10,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
format> partition
partition> print
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 302 - 13482 63.96GB (13181/0/0) 134129856
1 swap wu 0 - 301 1.47GB (302/0/0) 3073152
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 home wm 13483 - 14086 2.93GB (604/0/0) 6146304
The part number from 3 to 6 are unassigned. What does this mean? How much space of these unassigned partitions? How can I mount these unassigned partitions to my local directories?
Thanks.

"+How can I get the disk information in Solaris 9+ "
This was cross-posted to the Solaris 9 forum as well.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5223643

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