[Sunhelp] IDE disks for Ultra10

[steve price]

is this true for an u5 as well?  just got one and was
wanting to go buy a 20gb hard disk at the local frys -
is the ide controller in a u5/10 ata66?

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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