> Hello, > I looked through google and I am still searching, but I know someone > here knows because I asked before and I cannot find where I saved the > e-mail. > > I am running solaris5.8 on an Ultra-10 and need to purchase the biggest > IDE disks that Solaris 8 will recognize. I thought it was up to 133gb > and there was some algorithm to figure out the size but I cannot > remember. Can someone quickly remind me please the biggest disk I can > install in a Solaris 8 machine? Thanks to Ric Anderson, Matthew Stier, Steven Liu, Bob and sandwich Maker for the following answers. The issue isn't Solaris 8, it is the IDE controller on the Ultra-5/10. The native IDE controller has the 137GB limit, so you will be limited to 120GB drives. If someone sold a LBA48-compliant PCI-based IDE controller card, with SPARC drivers, Solaris 8 would support it. If you really need more than two 120GB drives, I have see a webpage that advertises a PCI-based SATA card, with SPARC drivers. Of course the list price is in the $350.00 range. At these prices, I'd start thinking about replacing the Ultra-10 with a second hand Sun Blade 100 or 150. (www.solarsystems.com or ebay) Ultra 10 limits you to 120ish gb in its controller. See http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q5.64 for limitations imposed by certain versions of Solaris 8. It's 133GB it's a 28-bit address bus on the IDE controller. 2^28 512-byte sectors = 137,438,953,472 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Apr 18 11:48:10 2006
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:43:57 EST