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This should be a FAQ item by now. I see the same question
reposted so often, and so many bad answers.

You need Solaris 7 or later to deal with large (>8G) drives.

1. I toss out the Sun IDE cable.
2. Set first drive as master, second drive (if any) as slave by jumpers.
3. Connect up using a standard IDE cable, not the Sun cable, to the
   primary IDE channel. I have had some problems using drives attached
   to the secondary channel, it works well most of the time but there
   are apparently some issues there. While putting two drives on the
   primary channel may not be ideal, neither is using IDE in the first
   place. Use what works.
4. Boot up your Solaris 7, and install or newfs as needed.

Been using IBM 14.4 gig for some while in this configuration, and
recently upgraded to an IBM 20 gig. No complaints.

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