[Sunhelp] disks for Sun SSA

[P Nutton]

> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:32:52 -0500
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] disks for Sun SSA
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> 
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:17:26PM +0100, P Nutton wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have now fitted five 9.0 Gb drives into my Sun SSA (100 series)
> replacing
> > the existing 1.05Gb drives, part numbers (format, select drive, i) below
> as
> > promised:
> <snip>
> 
> What firmware revision are you running on the SSA?
> 
> If I remember correctly, SSA 100s wont take over 4gig drives.
> 
> Bill
> 
Hi Bill,

The SSA mail was a follow up to a mail I posted about a month ago (probably
on the rescue list, sorry), asking what disks I could fit to my SSA. The
answer seemed to be anything that was 1", with a central 68 ribbon
connector, up to 8.5Gb. I now have a stripe of 5 disks which format can
recognise. I haven't put a file system on them yet, as one shows 8Gb, all
the rest show 8.43Gb.

/usr/sbin/ssaadm display c1

<snip>
Vendor: Sun
Product ID: SSA100
Product Rev: 1.0
Firmware Rev: 3.12

Sunsolve has no info on the problem, Sun support offered to send me a new
disk, which was nice of them as we only have software support on this item!
The only patch to mention the disk is 106817 which is a firmware upgrade,
but it doesn't mention this problem. I have built a test Sparc5 with the
correct external enclosure, so will have a go at a firmware upgrade of the
disk (gulp).
-- 
Paul Nutton
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