[Sunhelp] IDE disks for Ultra10

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:51:52PM -0700, Greg wrote:
> > Is there any way to utilize a Quantum LM30 30GB hard drive
> > with an Ultra 10???
> Yes, don't run such old operating system.  Solaris 7 and 8 support
> EIDE disks larger than 8GB, Solaris 8 10/00 and later support
> larger than 32GB.
> > Talked with Sun tech support - they say the Ultra 10 only supports
> > up to 9GB internal IDE disks 
> That's not true unless you asked specifically about an Ultra 10
> running Solaris 2.6.
> Of course if you've labeled the disk it will remain 8GB until
> you trash the label and re-label the disk, the OS will always
> use a valid label even if it doesn't describe the full disk.
> Trash the first few blocks of the disk by running dd from /dev/zero
> to a raw disk slice that starts at block zero on the disk.
> -greg

You also need to update the OpenBoot flash ROM in the U10 to get
it to recognize more than 8gig disks.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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