[SunHELP] Disk Drives for Ultra 10

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

You could also run the 'unofficial' patch from Tadpole which reportedly
works fine.

Peter


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:01, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: "Tom Jones" <tjones at statesman.com>
> " 
> " ----- Original Message -----
> " >      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?
> " >
> " > Thanks for your help,
> " >
> " > Tom Stewart
> " 
> " Sounds like you may be running Solaris 2.6 which has the 8GB limitation.
> 
> its autodetect does, but you can specify up to 64h/255s/16383c
> manually.
> 
> enter the geometry by hand.  fudge it if/when necessary.  ide drives
> don't really have 16h/64s anyway.
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