[SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question
    Mike Nicewonger 
    sunhelp at sunhelp.org
       
    Mon Dec  3 21:41:28 CST 2001
    
    
  
> Drives sold with accurate C/H/S geometries have no OS limitations.  The 
> 20GB EIDE drives sold by Sun have "true" C/H/S geometries and work with 
> the older Solaris releases even though the drive is larger than 8GB. 
> It's not common to find EIDE disks that report a C/H/S geometry over 8GB 
> "over the counter".
> 
I have used Maxtor 30 GB drives bought over the counter from Best Buys with no
problems in Ultra 5's.
Mike N
    
    
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