[SunHELP] Sun Fire V100 and large drives over 80GB

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: electroteque <spam at electroteque.org>
" 
" On 06/03/2006, at 5:34 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
" 
" > " From: electroteque <spam at electroteque.org>
" > "
" > " Hi there I was wondering if anyone can help me, i am lookin at 
" > fitting
" > " a drive into my server which is larger than 80GB, am i required to
" > " purchase the sun supplied seagate drive, or can i fit a larger 
" > seagate
" > " drive purchased locally? i've attempted to fit a 200G drive before 
" > and
" > " it would only recognise a portion of it. What is the limit there, i
" > " will be planning to install bsd instead of solaris also.
" >
" > there's no particular need to use sun drives.
" >
" > did you hit the wall at 137G with that 200G drive?
" 
" I think it was much less than that , like the drive loaded fine , it 
" just couldnt see the entire volume ?

i don't know, then.

" > starting with the
" > u5/u10 and for a long time - maybe still - sun's ide suffers from the
" > lba48 limit -- it can't physically address more than 137G/disk.  this
" > has nothing to do with whose drive it is.
" 
" what is the u5 and u10 ?

ultrasparc 5 and 10, late '90s vintage.

" I assume i can be safe just getting a 120GB drive ?

i don't know about the v100 specifically, but for many other suns up
to a few years ago at least - yes.

note - a larger drive will work fine too, within the limit that you
can only use the first 137G.

" > also, some solarii - 2.5.1 and 2.6 for sure - couldn't properly
" > autodetect large [>8G] geometries in format, requiring you to enter
" > dummied-up values by hand to make the full space of the drives
" > available.
" 
" Could have been a solaris issue yes but im planning to use freebsd 
" instead on it  :)

you'll avoid that pitfall then.  and iirc later solarii wised up.
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