[SPARCbook] question about disk capacity

[Ken Hansen]

On Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 02:26 PM, Jonathan Kalbfeld wrote:

> So I'm going to upgrade my sparcbook to Solaris 7, and I'd like to add a
> big laptop disk to it.  I was wondering if the capacity limitation was 
> due
> to the OS or something in the OBP?
>
There is no limitation to the SCSI interface, OBP, or Solaris to the 
best of my knowledge - the *only* limitation I am aware of is imposed by 
the IDE <-> SCSI converter used.

"Native" 2 1/2" SCSI drives topped out at 2 Gig, IIRC.

My SPARCbook 3TX (TurboSPARC 170 MHz) has a 12 Gig HD and is quite 
happy, thank you very much. ;^)

Some IDE <-> SCSI adapters top out at 8.4 Gigs based on some reports...

HTH,

Ken


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