[SPARCbook] Disk/Ultrabook

[Sunder]

Yup, I've installed a nice spacious 40GB in my ultrabook.  *BUT* there is
an issue to consider.  

Once you go to Solaris 8 and large disks, you can't go back because this
requires an OpenBoot PROM update which won't support small disks (I seem
to recall <8GB) aftwards, but believe me, you don't want to bother with
disks that small with all the GNU goodies you can run on this puppy. :)

Since you say you've got Solaris 8, you've probably already gotten the
EEPROM flashed with the later OpenBootPROM.

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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, John Appleby wrote:

> > What is max. size of disk for Ultrabook?
> > The OS is Solaris8.
> 
> Ultrabooks use an IDE interface so there is no limit there.
> 
> Solaris 7 is limited to 32Gb (Sparc) or 8Gb (Intel). This limit was
> lifted in Solaris 8 and there is no hard limit (certainly not for mobile
> devices).
> 
> So you should be able to run all present day 2.5" IDE disks (80Gb) with
> no problem.