Thanks to Mike (mikelist@sky.net) and Jay Lessert (jayl@accelerant.net) for the quick replies. Original question and a concise answer from Jay are below. Agree with Jay on the 'driver' quote which is why I decided to post to the list. joe > Ultra-60, (2) 450 UltraSPARC III procs, 2GB RAM, (2) 36GB internal drives > running Solaris 8 10/01. > > The user would like to replace one of the internal 36GB drives with an 80GB > (unknown brand). Checked with Sun and they reported that they did not > provide drivers that would allow this. Anyone out there successfully running > a similar configuration or can verify that it's impossible? No such thing as an 80GB SCSI drive that *I've* ever heard of, so I hope you don't have a clueless luser that wants to drop an 80GB IDE drive into U60. If it's a 73.xGB, SCA 3.5" drive (those *do* exist), then it will work just fine, assuming the power consumption is no more than 20-30% greater than the factory drive it replaces. I've done that in a previous job, a ST173404LC, I think. Not supported, of course. If it breaks, it's up to you and the company who sold you the drive to fix it. But if it's a good drive, it'll work. The "did not provide drivers" comment is bizarre. Unlike IDE, the arbitrary size limits for SCSI are way up over 1TB. Or else an A1000 (to pick a common example) with single SCSI interface and stuffed with 12x36GB drives wouldn't work very well, would it? Either your Sun contact totally misunderstood what you wanted, or they're a moron, or they thought you're a moron. :-) By the way, don't even think about putting that drive in your U60 unless you know *exactly* what the drive is, where it came from, you've got the datasheet on hand, etc. -- Jay Lessert jay_lessert@accelerant.net Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466-9472 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Nov 16 23:57:31 2001
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