Getting messages of "sdpx: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk" for disks with sun label partition table

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Issue

  • After upgrading from RHEL 5 to RHEL6, getting lots of error messages during boot:
sdpx: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk sdqg1 sdqg9 sdqg11
sdqg: p11 size 41941200 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk sdqc1 sdqc9 sdqc11
sdqc: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk sdqa1 sdqa9 sdqa11
sdqa: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk 
sdpz: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk sdqh1 sdqh9 sdqh11
sdqh: p11 size 733979808 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk sdqe1 sdqe9 sdqe11
sdqe: p11 size 1048539168 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk 
  • Booted without these messages on RHEL5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • StorNext

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