Ultra Sparc 10, WD 80GB Hard Disk format problem

How does one get over the - Contact manufacturer for formating error ?
I have an US10, and am trying to install a 2nd Western Digital 80GB hard disk.
The format command sees this disk as a 2nd disk but only of 11GB capacity.
It does not let me format this disk further.
Any help appreciated.
Arvind.

HI ARAVIND,
First of all I have not so far seen any limitation to disk size on ultra 10. Recently, i.e., 3 days back, I
installed an 80GB Seagate Baracuda HDD on Ultra 10, of course with some teeting problems. At first
I could get only 11.3 GB by default, or 64.5 GB by forcing the disk geometry. I really tried hard to make
this work beyond 64.5GB. As this was for a customer of ours, we had to make it work. I was frantically
searching the internet, and landed in some forum, where somebody replied to exactly similar query to
install Solaris 8 for HDD of capacitiies higher than 20GB. So Bang, I changed the OS to Solaris 8. But
Alas! I got only 74.5 GB capacity. Again went back to Seagate site and found that the figure of 156,301,488
MAX SECTORSwhen multiplied with 1024*1024*1024 you arrive at 74.5 GB, whereas if multiply this
number by 1000*1000*1000 you arrive at 80 Billion Bytes. However I am able to use this disk without any
problem now. So first install Solaris 8 and continue your R&&D. I wasted 4 days in getting this info.

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