[SunRescue] Max. Size Hard Disk Installable in SparcStorage Array

[Ed Pate]

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Bjorn is correct.  You will not see all 9GB.  The disks that I have in mine are 9.0GB,
format shows a disk size of 8.43GB.  I am running the latest firmware rev (3.12).  Another
(possibly trivial) detail that I found while confirming that is that the 10x and 20x have
4MB of NVRAM, while the 11x and the 21x have 16MB.

Ed

> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:00:53 +0100
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Ramqvist <brt at osk.sema.se>
> Organization: Sema AB
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Max. Size Hard Disk Installable in SparcStorage Array
>  Model 100?
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> Jonathan Katz wrote:
> >
> > Earlier today you wrote:
> > > Now that I've got my SparcServer 1000 running, I'd like
> > > to try the Storage Array that came with it (It looks like
> > > a model 100, but the model number on the back indicates
> > > model 1010) . I did a doc search on the sun web site,
> >
> > I guess I'm now the Network Storage Representative. Folks
> > who are more in the know than I please contradict me if I
> > get things wrong...
> >
> > As a model '1010' they shipped with 1GB disks. As a '1020'
> > they shipped with 2G disks, and so on... except I think the
> > largest drives these shipped with were 4GB. You should be
> > able to cram *any* size SCA SCSI-SE drive in there IIRC,
> > just make sure the mounting brackets line-up. These are just
> > really SCSI JBODs and use a fibre-based SCSI connection to
> > go form the host (your SS1000) to the SSA.
>
> This topic has been up atleast two times before, but I need to say it
> again;
> The SPARCstorage Array 100/110 supports up to 8GB because of
> firmware/hardware limitations. There are no update (yet) for using
> bigger drives than that today. You CAN cram in 9 gigers, but you'll only
> be able to use 8GB of these.
> Notice, this has been tested in production enviroments and this is what
> I've been told by a Sun Service Engineer I know.
>
> /Bjorn
>

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