Hello,
The response was that the timeout problem does not exist in Solaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4).
However some people suggested that some large disks have unacceptable performance.
Thanks to the following people:
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
David He <David.He@opentec.com.au>
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>
"Henry J. Kovalcik" <henry@ECE.concordia.CA>
Phil Mawson <pmawson@oxhp.com>
goff@CAST.MsState.Edu (Don Goff)
jmarble@cambric.com (Jeff Marble)
My Original request:
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>G'Day
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>We are considering purchasing a Seagate Barracuda 9Gb SCSI-II disk to attach to our SUN SPARC-10-612MP running Solaris 2.4.
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>I understand (from searching SunManagers mail) that Solaris 2.3 had a timeout problem when formatting large disks. But apparently this was fixed by a patch (101788-01).
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>Does anyone know if this patch is integrated into 2.4? Or has the timeout system been reworked in 2.4?
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>Any advice regarding any problems with a 9Gb disk on 2.4 would also be appreciated.
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>Thanks
>
>Sean.
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