IA: Large Disk Support

By using improved BIOS interfaces to access the disk, Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition now fully uses disks larger than 8 Gbytes. Previously, only the first 8 Gbytes of any IDE disk could be used by Solaris Intel Platform Edition; also, only the first 8 Gbytes could be used for a root slice by either SCSI or IDE disks. Both of these restrictions have been removed on systems with improved BIOS interfaces.

For more information, see the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide.