Solaris 8 x86 w/ Seagate 410800N Drive - Size Detection Problem

I have a Dual PII-300Mhz computer w/ 786MB memory and a 4.5GB Wide Scsi (Seagate) and an 8.1GB Narrow Scsi (Seagate - 410800N) configuration.
I have installed Solaris 8 x86 and applied the "recommended patches". The system is working great EXCEPT for when I attempt to format the ST410800N hard drive.
The # of cylinders is suppose to be 4925, heads 27, sectors per track 133, etc...
Solaris is detecting only ~467 cylinders and 26 heads. I've tried to change the "TYPE" to one that I created and it seems to work for a few menu selections, but then when I try to partition the drive, it shows only ~467-470 cylinders. It shows 9 slices and only allows me modify up to #7. The SCSI ID for the drive is 4, which I'm not sure if this is something that Solaris is reserving for a Tape drive. I can change it to 1 or 2.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am new to using Solaris, but I'm enjoying it alot. I just would like to get this drive partitioned so that I can move "home" and to install Oracle 8.x
Thanks,
George

Thanks for all of the helpful responses. I figured out the problem.

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====== ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
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larger than 8GBytes, but since you are on Solaris 8 you should be ok.
For SCSI drives (requires a PCI SCSI HBA for the Ultra-10) the size can
be quite large. The most common large size SCSI drives today is 180
GBytes, but SCSI is designed to scale much larger.
You don't want RAIDManager for mirroring. Look for Solstice DiskSuite (SDS)
in your media distribution. If I'm not mistaken, it is cleverly hidden in
the "EA" directory on CD 2of2 in the media kit. Also, look for docs on
mirroring root using SDS on http://docs.sun.com
-- richard

Solaris x86 8 bootdisk

For some reason my computer fails to boot from scsi cdrom, is there a
bootdisk for Solaris x86? I have a Tekram DC-390F SCSI adapter and
Pioneer DR-U24X CDROM-drive.

Tekram offer a driver for download - this presupposes you have a system already installed and running Solaris so that you can actually install the Tekram driver.
What Tekram have failed to implement and deliver is the "ITU" version of the driver - Install Time Update is Sun's mechanism \for allowing installation of drivers for devices which need to be bootable duringthe installation of the system - you'll see something like "F4 - use ITU floppy" along the bottom of the install screen.
Options are: complain to Tekram and ask if they've heard of ITU
or
install with IDE CD then add SCSI support after

Vantec PCIe SATA controller, Solaris x86

I've searched all the online resources I can find, and don't see an answer to this. Is there a driver for this SATA controller for Sol. x86, and if so, where would I find it?
Output of uname -X:
System = SunOS
Node = p810
Release = 5.10
KernelID = Generic_139556-08
Machine = i86pc
BusType = <unknown>
Serial = <unknown>
Users = <unknown>
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 4
Card is a Vantec UGT-IS100R, you can see more about it here:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=V13-2602
PC is not COTS but homebuilt from various components. Motherboard is Asus M2N68-AM SE2. The card has one hard drive attached, a Western Digital Caviar, 1 TB. The card's a RAID controller, but with one disk it's obviously not doing any RAID stuff, and it recognizes the drive as a non-RAID device.
Boot drive is a 320 GB SATA connected directly to the motherboard (not to the Vantec). Windows 7, Slackware 12.2, and Solaris all installed just fine; Win7 and Slack recognize the Vantec and attached drive with no problems. Solaris seems to be working well in all other respects.
Thanks!
Phil

A little progress, and some more information.
1) I had downloaded Solaris 10 longer ago than I thought; I now have the latest-n-greatest (10/09). Output of uname -v is Generic_141445-09. This upgrade eliminated a message I was getting during boot with the older version:
ahci_port_reset port 1 the device hardware has been initialized and the power-up diagnostics failed
2) The Vantec card uses the JMicron 363 chip. After doing more web surfing, I found this thread relating to JMicron and OpenSolaris:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=376370
Essentially I'm getting the same results as the OP in that thread, except that prtconf already shows my card in AHCI mode. cfgadm -la shows the controller there; cfgadm -c configure results in "failed" status for the controller; and no matter what I can't get it to recognize the attached hard drive.
I don't want to upgrade the card's firmware; having that drive available under Solaris isn't as important as having the card and drive work under Win7 and Slackware, so if I just have to live without it I will. So ... any other ideas? Thanks!
Phil

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