[SPARCbook] Solaris 8 ?

[Ken Hansen]

IIRC, some IDE <-> SCSI adapters are limited to the size drive they can use.

My 6.4 Gig was fine, but I bought my "kit" from www.powerbook1.com
(drive+adapter together) for $400.

The $650 12 Gig HDs are tempting, but I am happy with 6.4 Gig ;^)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Schiller" <schiller at agrijag.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Solaris 8 ?


> Speaking of HD's on sparcbooks, I got a 20gig fujitsu HD in my 3GX, but I
> couldn't get it formated to anything larger than 4.3 gig (I think that's
what
> it was, this is going from memory). I know Sol 2.6 doesn't support more
than
> what is it, 8 gigs? or so, but does anyone have a format.dat entry for the
> 20gig fujitsu (it's an ide drive connected with an ide<->scsi adapter) to
use
> as much of the drive as possible?
>
> -Mike
>
> Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > Haw-haw haw! That's a good one.
> >
> > No, Solaris 8 is not supported/available for the SparcBook 3XX series
> > notebooks, AFAIK.
> >
> > Also, think of the limitations: SS/5-110 class CPU, 64 Meg (Practical
limit,
> > 128 Meg *possible*), expensive HD space ($650 for a 12 Gig drive, $400
for a
> > 6.4 Gig drive)... WOuld you really want to run Solaris 8 on that?
> >
> > An SS/5-170 w/128 -> 256 Meg RAM, U/W SCSI, and a nice TGX framebuffer,
and
> > then Solaris 8 starts to become fun, IMHO...
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Evans" <matt at mattevans.org>
> > To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 3:01 AM
> > Subject: [SPARCbook] Solaris 8 ?
> >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to sell my 3GS and the potential buyer is wondering if he
can
> > > run 2.8 on it.  Theres nothing in the FAQ post 7.
> > >
> > > Anyone tried this ?  I know its foolish until there are tadpole
patches
> > > for it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matt
> > >
> > >
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