[SPARCbook] Sparcbook ATA drive formatting

[steve price]

Ian,

is that true for the rdi line as well (turbosparc
170)?



--- Ian Spray <iws at tadpole.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 23-Oct-00 Martin Wedel wrote:
> >
> > btw, what's the largest hdd anyone has been able
> to use in their
> > sparcbook? I know tadpole sells a 12G, but is
> there any OBP limitation to
> > go above that?
> > 
> I would tend to be careful about where the kernel
> image resides on the
> drive - older versions of OBP weren't very happy if
> the kernel either
> spanned, or was on the other side of the first 2G of
> drive space. 
> Simply make sure the / partition is no more than 2G,
> and is the first slice
> on the drive, and that won't be a problem.
> 
> I can't recall if there were any other gotcha's,
> though.
> 
> -- 
> Ian Spray          :  Software Engineer     : 
> Tadpole-RDI
> iws at tadpole.co.uk  :  +44 (0) 1223 428 224  : 
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