[SunHELP] Large Drives on Sun Ultra5

[Jim Pennino]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:20:13PM -0800, Mac User wrote:
> I have a Sun Blade 1000 with a 36 GB
> --- thomas.cameron at CameronTech.com wrote:
> > I may well be wrong, but I thought that Solaris 8
> > capped at 30 gigs IDE. 
> > Solaris 7 capped at 9 gigs, I believe.
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong?
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > > I've just bought a 120Gb IDE HDD for my Ultra five
> > but I can't get it
> > > respond reliably. some OS's it works but with
> > incorrect partition sizes:
> > > Debian, not at all solaris 8 or red hat 6.2.
> > >
> > > If anyone could advise on what I need to do to get
> > this working I would
> > > be most greatfull.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Richard
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Since we're playing mine's bigger than your's, I have a Blade 100 with
80Gb.

According to the Blade 100 FAQ, the max size IDE on a Blade is 137GB, so
Solaris 8 can obviously handle a 120Gb drive.

Patches maybe? Tried looking on sunsolve for IDE patches?

-- 
Jim Pennino