[SPARCbook] Larger disk on S1

[David Hansen]

 The sparcbook 1 used a custom monitor (not an OBP and definitely not a pc
bios (not sure why you assumed that)) which does have y2k issues. It also
will not support standard distributions of SunOS and Solaris. You have to
use the custom OS ports from Tadpole-RDI.

 -david


From: Emanuelsson Paer <Paer.Emanuelsson at kst.siemens.de>
To: "'sparcbook at sunhelp.org'" <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:23:59 +0200
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Subject: [SPARCbook] Larger disk on S1
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

Does anyone know of any disk size limitations on the S1?
I replaced the original (IDE) 120 Mb drive with an 800 Mb model,
but the Sparcbook hangs after HW diag as soon as it tries to
access the disk.  It's totally dead.  I know the disk is ok.
The drive light blinks quickly once, so it does read out the
disk parameters.

I wonder if it's the old ugly 500MB PC BIOS problem that's affecting
the Sparcbook as well?  The disk has more than 1024 cylinders (~1300).
Any success stories using a larger disk appreciated.

Pell