[SunRescue] Decstation 3100 and 5000/25 drives on Suns?????

Lyndon Griffin lgriffin at naviant.com
Fri Aug 27 14:02:35 CDT 1999


> You can use larger drives in sun4 systems as long as you're not running
> ancient versions of SunOS.  I had a pair of DEC 2GB drives in my 4/330 and
> they ran like a charm.  Larger drives will work as well, you just can't
> let the root partition extend past 2GB or the PROM won't be able to find
> the boot blocks.

I have a pair of 4gb barracuda's in my 4/330...  Runs great (and the
barracudas are so much faster than the old Micropolis drives that came with
it).

<:)  Lyndon







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