SUN ULTRA 5 - MAIN DRIVE

Hello.
Sorry about my english.
I have a problem with SUN ULTRA 5.
I removed the master drive (Seagate Model ST320420A) and installed new drive (Western Digital WD400EB - 40GB EIDE).
The WD400EB capacity is 40GB but the OS (Solaris 2.6) recognize only 8GB. What could be the trouble?
Any help would be useful to me.
Thanks you

Hello Alejandro,
<i>The WD400EB capacity is 40GB but the OS (Solaris 2.6) recognize only 8GB. What could be the trouble?</i>
that's unfortunately correct. Solaris 2.6 is limited to 8GB for IDE harddisk disks, bigger SCSI disks (requiring an SCSI controller of cause) are supported.
Your 20GB drive had a special SUN firmware (the same model with Seagate firmware would be detected as 8GB).
This is a link to the "discussion"
http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&got o=6878
Use Solaris 8 10/00 (that's 10/2000) or newer. Solaris 10 is absolutely free, previous versions have been restricted by licenses, that's means you had to buy them or get them under service contract.
See the following link for an explanation.
<b>Solaris 2 FAQ by Caspar Dik</b>
http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q5.64
Michael

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