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Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.Com>
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> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
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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.
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> >You need Solaris 7 or later to deal with large (>8G) drives.
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> And that's all you need; Solaris 7 supports large IDE drives
> and they work without your contortions.
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> If a drive was labeled under Solaris 2.6 you will need to zap
> the drive label with dd.
who to zap a drive label with dd?

we solved it by manualy defining the disk parameters
our problem was that we bought a 26 gb seagate and first tried to make it
work with 2.6. the vendor had no note about the  >8gb problem but told us
later that it would only run with 2.7
> Casper
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