[SunHELP] Sun Fire V100 and large drives over 80GB

[electroteque]

Ok cheers, 120G drive it is. I recently just purchased a 1GB stick of  
ram for the V100, its a 550 processor so i researched that it can  
handle 1GB stick rather than 2x 550mb sticks. Lets see how that goes.


On 06/03/2006, at 11:08 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:

> " From: electroteque <spam at electroteque.org>
> "
> " On 06/03/2006, at 5:34 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> "
> " > " From: electroteque <spam at electroteque.org>
> " > "
> " > " Hi there I was wondering if anyone can help me, i am lookin at
> " > fitting
> " > " a drive into my server which is larger than 80GB, am i required  
> to
> " > " purchase the sun supplied seagate drive, or can i fit a larger
> " > seagate
> " > " drive purchased locally? i've attempted to fit a 200G drive  
> before
> " > and
> " > " it would only recognise a portion of it. What is the limit  
> there, i
> " > " will be planning to install bsd instead of solaris also.
> " >
> " > there's no particular need to use sun drives.
> " >
> " > did you hit the wall at 137G with that 200G drive?
> "
> " I think it was much less than that , like the drive loaded fine , it
> " just couldnt see the entire volume ?
>
> i don't know, then.
>
> " > starting with the
> " > u5/u10 and for a long time - maybe still - sun's ide suffers from  
> the
> " > lba48 limit -- it can't physically address more than 137G/disk.   
> this
> " > has nothing to do with whose drive it is.
> "
> " what is the u5 and u10 ?
>
> ultrasparc 5 and 10, late '90s vintage.
>
> " I assume i can be safe just getting a 120GB drive ?
>
> i don't know about the v100 specifically, but for many other suns up
> to a few years ago at least - yes.
>
> note - a larger drive will work fine too, within the limit that you
> can only use the first 137G.
>
> " > also, some solarii - 2.5.1 and 2.6 for sure - couldn't properly
> " > autodetect large [>8G] geometries in format, requiring you to enter
> " > dummied-up values by hand to make the full space of the drives
> " > available.
> "
> " Could have been a solaris issue yes but im planning to use freebsd
> " instead on it  :)
>
> you'll avoid that pitfall then.  and iirc later solarii wised up.
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