[SunHELP] Largest IDE drive capacity on Solaris (SPARC and x86)

Mike's List sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 14 20:30:46 CST 2001


With the latest Solaris 8 (4/01 7/01,etc.) you can probably use the 80G
and 100G (as the posts go) not sure about 120G...trial and error is the
best way to go.


- Mike

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thien Vu wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I could have sworn I've seen this question come up before, but I looked
> through the last 6 months of archives and couldn't find it.
> 
> I've also looked in the FAQs, and although it says that there is a 32GB
> limit, I've heard of people using the disks anyways and having them work.
> 
> Am I wrong about this?? Any confirmed stories of things working or not
> working?
> 
> I'm asking because I want to put some Maxtor 120GB disks into either a
> E450 or x86 machine, because we need that much capacity!
> 
> Any suggestions on increasing capacity without breaking the bank would be
> great too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thien
> 
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