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

[electroteque]

Sounds like a Solaris 9 problem then ? Im getting a 160GB drive even 
though ill only be able to use 137GB of it :D I did read on google that 
S9 needed to be patched, patching is a nightmare in S9 i wont go there 
:D

On 07/03/2006, at 1:45 AM, George Munk wrote:

> One other comment about 120 GB drives. We bought and used some Western
> Digital 120 GB drives in some of our V100s. When one of them failed, 
> the
> replacement drive which was the exact same model, prevented the system
> from booting. This occurred using all versions of Solaris 9 that we
> tried and with multiple newer disks. The problem didn't occur with
> Solaris 10. I don't recall the exact message but the implication was
> that Solaris 9 was trying to get or set a drive parameter and hung when
> it wasn't able to.
>
> George
>
>
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> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
> On Behalf Of electroteque
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sun Fire V100 and large drives over 80GB
>
> 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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