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

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, [ISO8859-1] Helena Sderholm wrote:

> I can report that I have managed to install a 12G IDE drive with Solaris 2.6 5/98. Only 8G of the drive is seen though. I guess the limit is not 6G, at least not for my SCSI converter. Its irritating to lose 4G, still 8G is plenty of room.

The 8GB limit is another known limit in the IDE world.

Hugo.

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