Do Not Install a Large Partition on Systems That Already Have Installed symhisl, mega, or cpqncr Disk Controller Drivers (Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 10/01 Release Notes)

Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 10/01 Release Notes

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Do Not Install a Large Partition on Systems That Already Have Installed `symhisl`, `mega`, or `cpqncr` Disk Controller Drivers

Do not attempt to install a large partition that extends beyond the 8-Gbyte boundary on a disk that uses any of the controllers that are listed next. If you do attempt to install such a partition, the installed system does not behave properly.

The Solaris operating environment installation program cannot detect that the driver does not support large partitions. The installation continues without displaying an error. However, when you reboot your system, the reboot might fail.

Even if you successfully reboot your system, it will fail later because of other changes that are related to boot devices or added packages. The disk controllers that are associated with these drivers are the following.

Symbios 53C896-based controllers (symhisl)

AMI MegaRAID controllers (mega)

Compaq 53C8xx-based SCSI controllers (cpqncr)

Workaround: Do not install a large partition that extends beyond the first 8 Gbytes of a disk on systems that have disk controllers that are driven by the symhisl, mega, or cpqncr drivers.