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Preparing for Logical Drives Larger Than 253 Gbyte on Systems Running Solaris

Solaris requires drive geometry for various operations including newfs. In order for the appropriate drive geometry to be presented to the Solaris operating sysrem for logical drives larger than 253 Gbyte, you have to configure Host Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping Configuration using the firmware application. Refer to the SANnet II RAID Firmware User's Guide for your array for information about accessing the firmware application.

  1. In the firmware application, select view and edit Configuration parameters on the Main menu.

  2. Select Hose-Side SCSI Parameters.

  3. Select Host Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping Configuration.

  4. Select Sector Ranges and specify 255.

  5. Select Head Ranges and specify 64.

  6. Select Cylinder Ranges and specify 65536.

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