[SPARCbook] SparcBook IDE/SCSI converter - FOLLOWUP

[Wes Hofmann]

Just FYI:  Because the converters in most sparcbooks (mine included) do not support LBA, you won't be able to use a drive larger than 8GB.  Any larger drive you put in will only be recognized as an 8GB drive by the converter card.  Hope this helps.

Wes

> 
> To follow-up with the question I asked earlier this week about formatting an
> IDE drive in Solaris that is behind an IDE/SCSI converter card-
> 
> Using the physical head/cyl/sector info for the IDE disk appeared to work
> fine, resulting in a volume of the correct size, which I was able to install
> Solaris on without a hitch.
> 
> I hope this holds true with disks of much higher capacity, because now I'm
> going shopping for a big ol' laptop drive to stuff into my SparcBook! <grin>
> 
> Steve
> 
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> Steve Hatle
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> shatle at vue.com
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