Solaris 10 x86 and Volume Manager fdisk identifiers

Hi,
I'm playing with Sun Volume Manager and have a question. I have installed two drives in addition to my system drive where Solaris 10 resides. I used format to add a Solaris fdisk partition of Solaris2 (0xbf). I'm aware that the old identifier used to be 0x82, same as Linux swap identifier. However, when I open up smc and go to Storage->Disks and select the two unused disks, smc complains and tells me that no Solaris Fdisk partitions exist. If I re-partition these drives with the old Solaris identifier (0x82), smc doesn't complain.
Is this a known issue with the Volume Manager gui? Because I am able to work with the disks just fine from the command line using the meta* commands no matter what identifier I use. Maybe I need a patch? Thanks for any pointers.
Jason

Had the same problem. Look here:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5348727
Hope that helps!
Jeremy

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