[SunHELP] ide harddisk on ultra10

[Michael Horton]

Dina,

I have used Seagate 40GB hard drives in several
different Ultra 5/10 without any problems.  Solaris 8
will see larger than 30GB hard drives (0101 0401
1001).  If you search the archive of this mailing
list, you will find all kinds of information on this
issue.

The limitations appear to be in the manner the hard
drive's firmware reports the parameters of the disk. 
The archive has the specifics.  This means that some
brands of larger hard drives will not work effectively
in the Ultra 5/10.  I have always used Seagate 40GB
hard drives with success.  Once I tried a 30GB Western
Digital that I purchased from CompUSA and it worked as
well as the Seagates.

Sun support recommended that I upgrade the PROM to the
latest in order to use larger disks but even this is
not necessary.


Hope this helps,

HM


--- Dina-natha Das <solaris at sjvc.org> wrote:
> I also have Ultra 10 and I tried using 80GB, 60GB,
> 40GB and 30GB hard drives
> on it. It appears that Solaris 8 (which I am using)
> supports only 30GB IDE
> drives. Segate Fireball 3, 7200rpm drive worked just
> fine for me (I've put 2
> of them in my Ultra 10, they work just fine and they
> are fast too).
> 
> When I tried to use drives bigger than 30GB I would
> get some random values
> reported by format utility (very small sizes, like
> you mentioned, for 40GB
> format would report around 6GB and around 14GB for
> 80 GB drive). When I
> tried to use 30GB drive format reported 29.26GB (or
> something like that,
> which is more less OK). If you are using Solaris 7
> then I guess it has the
> same limit as version 8.
> 
> Dnd.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Walter" <solaris at fue-gmbh.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:49 PM
> Subject: [SunHELP] ide harddisk on ultra10
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i wanted to format a IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 harddisk
> (40GB ATA 100) in an
> Sun
> > Ultra 10 workstation.
> > With the format tool of Solaris 2.7 the disk is
> recognized as
> IC35L040AVER07-0
> > with 6,85GB.
> >
> > Then i formated it on a pc with Partition Magic.
> > On pc there are 39 GB.
> >
> > Can anyone help me to get the remaining 33 GB?
> >
> > Thanks for help
> > Martin Walter
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