How do I add a 8 GB or greater ATAPI drive to Solaris 7 or earlier?
Solaris 8 has support for large ATAPI drives built-in. For SCSI drives, there’s no such restriction. However, if you have Solaris 7 or earlier, there’s an 8 GB restriction on large hard drives, even in LBA mode. There is a workaround for this limit however, by following these instructions: To add a drive for Solaris 7, you need a BIOS that supports drives greater than 8.4GB in LBA mode. Check with the computer manufacturer. BIOS upgrades may also be available if your system currently does not support large drives. You also need to find out the total number of sectors available on the drive. Solaris 7 or earlier cannot read the extended information on the drive, so the information will need to be obtained from the manufacturer. If the manufacturer only provides the total number of bytes, then divide that number by 512 to obtain the total number of sectors. NOTE: Ignore the 16383x16x63 (or whatever) listed on the drive — this equates to an 8.4GB drive and is not applicable to large driv
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