[SPARCbook] 12G drive, but only 8G seen

[Ken Hansen]

Wkere did you get *just* the adapter? I have a Voyager that could use more space,
but not at $400 for 6.4 Gig (http://www.powerbook1.com/)

Ken

Greg wrote:

> > I experienced the same limitation about a year ago.  Evidently, the SCSI->IDE
> > converters they use in the SparcBook series were designed before the advent of
> > LBA, which is the addressing method that modern IDE drives use that allow them
> > to exceed 8GB.  The only way that I know of to get around this problem is
> > trying to find a SCSI->IDE converter that is LBA-enabled.  Frustrating, isn't
> > it?
>
> The current versions of the exact same adapters _do_ work for drives
> larger than 8GB and, as an added bonus, perform better.
>
> Once I switched to using the new adapter I was able to growfs the
> last UFS partition on my disk to use the added space beyond 8GB.
> Did it while the file system was mounted, too.  That's good stuff.
>
> -greg
>
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