[SunHELP] What is the largest hard drive that I can put in my ULTRA 2

[Jeremy Towers]

Hi Eric,

At several times in the past 5 years disk firmware patches have been in 
the Sun mandatory patch list....  So Sun  do take this seriously.

Disks nowadays have sophisticated microprocessors and operating systems 
and most bugs occur in the interaction of the disks with the outside 
world.   Another example is where mechanical mounting design has found 
 a weakness under certain operating conditions, and a  timeout has been 
changed.

This may be pompous but its really the difference between being an 
engineering company like IBM, DEC, HP or Sun  and the stack em high sell 
em cheap PC  resellers.

For a simple system maybe you don't need firmware upgrades, but when it 
gets more complex you surely will.

I did say that if its your own system, and its not critical to you then 
sure, don't bother.

I realize the world may be changing and that  complex systems may be 
replaced by single purpose systems , but hey, we are dealing with past 
treasures aren't we?

and again, its only my 2c

Regards

Jeremy

>
>Yeah, but how often does anyone actually update drive firmware...?  And what 
>kind of "problems" are these updates supposed to fix? 
>
>The whole notion of updating drive firmware seems somewhat preposterous to me.