[SunHELP] Disk Drives for Ultra 10

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:35:28AM -0500, TomST at netins.com wrote:
>      Having some problems with a ultra 10.  I have a bad drive, it is a
> Seagate ata II drive.  The part number matches a ata/66.  I am trying to put
> in a new drive, ata/100 120gb but it is only coming up as seeing 8gb of the
> drive.  I have tried a different drive and it did the same thing.  Has anyone
> run into a problem like this?  Are the sun drives different than any other
> drive?

You need to run Solaris 8 or newer, and make sure you've got the latest
OpenBoot code installed.  Go to sunsolve.sun.com and search for "Ultra 10 FLASH PROM".

I've used an 80G drive in an Ultra 5 with no problems running Solaris 9.

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas