[Sunhelp] IDE disks for Ultra10

Greg gonufer at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 27 11:07:56 CDT 2000


> is this true for an u5 as well?

The Ultra 5 is the exact same system as the Ultra 10, the only
different is the case/power supply and the PCI riser card.

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

Not true but it seems to be a common misconception (perhaps because peecees
required "BIOS" updates to handle >8GB disks?).  There have been some
scattered IDE-related bug fixes in OBP but mostly things like some debug
commmands not working when there weren't any IDE devices installed and some
CD-ROM drives not showing up properly.

-greg







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