Solaris 10 x86 x2100 Hitachi 7K80 hard disk

I got an x2100 that came with Hitachi disks HDS728080PLA380. After Sol 10 install, I wanted to modify a slice in the partition table, but format doesn't recognize the disk. It asks for the geometry stats. After I put them in, it changes the partition table effectively wiping out my data. I got another x2100, but it came with Seagate disks. I have no problem using format to modify the slices on that disk.
It seems I'm stuck with however I initially set up the disks on the initial install with the Hitachi disks. That doesn't seem right; what am I missing? Anyone else run into this? Any suggestions?

Solaris 10 does not play well with certain raid controllers shipping on the Dell 2850s.
See http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23549
You may want to look at the HCL entry for the 2850
From http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/806.html
Stephan Sachweh writes,
If you have a DRAC4/I board inside you should upgrade the firmware to v1.20 and disable the VIRTUALCDROM and VIRTUALFLOPPY while installing Solaris.
Also you need a patch for big drives if you have 73GB Seagate harddisks.
In your Solaris 10 boot floppy, edit Solaris/bootenv.rc, append this line to the end of this file: setprop acpi-user-options 0x4 ---
For some info about the perc 3/di on the older 2650s, see http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/6.html

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