AAC driver limited to 243GB per "disk"?

From: Peter Eriksson (peter_at_ifm.liu.se)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:07:01 +0000 (UTC)

Just installed Solaris 10 GA on a PC equipped with
with 14 400GB SATA drives connected to an Adaptec 21610SA
(16 port RAID) controller.

Everything works fine, I set up the disks as 7 two-way striped
disk volumes (about 750GB each) and Solaris finds seven volumes
when it boots.

However... Solaris thinks they all are 243GB in size. Now, that's a
pretty hefty taxation of the disk space!

Any ideas where I should be looking for fixing this issue? Google doesn't
seem to turn up anything, nor does reading "man aac".

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@0,0
       1. c0t1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@1,0
       2. c0t2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@2,0
       3. c0t3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@3,0
       4. c0t4d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@4,0
       5. c0t5d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@5,0
       6. c0t6d0 <DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@6,0
       7. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 39887 alt 2 hd 64 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0t0d0
[disk formatted]
...
format> current
Current Disk = c0t0d0
<DEFAULT cyl 31721 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,32a@0,2/pci9005,293@1/sd@0,0

format> inq
Vendor: AAC
Product: AAC card
Revision: V1.0

- Peter 

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