[SunRescue] Max capacity of harddisk supported by SS20
James Lockwood
james at quickdog.com
Thu Jul 20 12:50:50 CDT 2000
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Possibly. If you happen to locate your kernel on the first 2GB of the disk,
> then you won't have a problem. If you later patch the kernel, and it ends
> up after the first 2GB of disk, then you're SOL.
> I think that the 32-bit SPARCs can only address the first 2GB of disk. The
> UltraSPARCs can address more.
Older OBP's in older Sparcs can only access the first 1GB of disk. IIRC,
this includes all sun4 and 1.x sun4c.
-James
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