[Sunhelp] 20 Gig ATA IDE

[Gregory Leblanc]

Yeah, but that's got nothing to do with Sun wanting to support SCSI over
IDE, it has to do with SCSI not being a kludge.  Or at least, SCSI is a
better kludge.  IDE doesn't have any way of addressing more than 8GB.
Anything beyond that is just pure luck.  I don't personally run Solaris on
Intel hardware, so I can't help you fix it, sorry.  I also don't have any
drives bigger than 8GB, so I can't even test it out...  GL
	Greg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Wells [mailto:wellsc at ezlookin.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 6:37 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] 20 Gig ATA IDE
> 
> 
> 
> It's an ASUS motherboard with a bios Date of December 1999. 
> It's hard to believe that the bios would recognize the entire 
> 20 Gigabytes
> yet not be able to successfully pass on that information to a 
> supposed up-
> to-date operating system. Maybe SUN just don't care about 
> extensive support 
> for IDE. I bet if I threw a 20 Gig SCSI drive in the box, it would 
> recognize every last block, bit, magnetic particle, and then some.