[SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question

Mike Nicewonger sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 3 21:41:28 CST 2001


> Drives sold with accurate C/H/S geometries have no OS limitations.  The 
> 20GB EIDE drives sold by Sun have "true" C/H/S geometries and work with 
> the older Solaris releases even though the drive is larger than 8GB. 
> It's not common to find EIDE disks that report a C/H/S geometry over 8GB 
> "over the counter".
> 
I have used Maxtor 30 GB drives bought over the counter from Best Buys with no
problems in Ultra 5's.

Mike N



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