[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2013, Jerry Kemp wrote:

>
>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> I was most likely wrong about the drives being SAS, I just assumed and
>>> hadn't
>>> checked.
>>
>
> Hello Lionel,
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19088-01/v210.srvr/819-4208-10/admin_intro.html#87170
>
> I'm sure that you can do a Yahoo search to find this out, but your drive
> bays are for Ultra160 SCSI drives.
>
> The largest drives I ever had in a V240 were 146Gb drives, but in this
> personally archived email from the Sun Managers mailing list, this
> gentleman verified correct operation of Seagate 300Gb SCSI drives.

What was the rotational speed of the 300G drive?

>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jerry
>
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>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: SUMMARY:  V240 Maximum Disk Size
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:38:50 +0930
> From: Alan.Rubin at xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
> To: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org, sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
>
> Yes, a larger disk will work fine in a V240.  Some people warned that
> there could be additional heat generated.
>
> We installed a 300GB Seagate drive yesterday without any issues.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Rubin
> Technician Unix
> DCS Midrange Services
> Phone: +61 (08) 8999 6814
> Fax:      +61 (08) 8999 7493
> e-Mail: alan.rubin at xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
>
> __________________
>
>
> Hello,
>
> The System Handbook for the V240 lists the maximum disk sold/supported
> by Sun is
> 143GB.  Does anyone have any personal experience with using a larger
> disk in the
> V240?  Will it depend on PROM?  If so, what version is needed to run a
> larger
> disk?  We need to move data from our SAN disks to a local disk before the
> particular SAN experiences a failure in order to minimize any outages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Rubin
> Technician Unix
> DCS Midrange Services
> Phone: +61 (08) 8999 6814
> Fax:      +61 (08) 8999 7493
> e-Mail: alan.rubin at xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
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