[SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question

[Shahid Shahzad-W5106C]

I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a 30GB Maxtor Drive on Ultra10 but the installation displays only 8062MB disk space. How can I make the Solaris installation see the correct size of the disk (30GB) instead of 8062MB.

Thanks,
Shahzad

-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:oneiros at darkspire.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:54 PM
To: help of the sun
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question


Thus spake Shahid Shahzad-W5106C (W5106C at motorola.com):

> What is the maximum size disk that can be added in Ultra 5/10 system
> using Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 8? I want to add 30GB or 50GB or 100GB (if
> available) Maxtor or Western Digital 7200RPM in ultra5/10.

I've heard problems of > 30G with older versions of Solaris.  I've heard of
success with 40G on current solaris builds.  No idea about 50 or 100.
Hopefully someone else here will be able to confirm.

> Can any ide disk be used in ultra5/10 or it has to be a SUN disk?

Yep, any drive is fine.  Sun uses seagate barracudas.

> Do I need to install any special patches or drivers?

Nothing other than the current patch set.  Make sure you have the latest
recommended kernel, filesystem utils, and platform drivers.

HTH.

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