Summary - USB disks on Ultra 5

From: Peter Stokes <peter_at_ashlyn.co.uk>
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 09:34:22 EDT
Hi All

I had a few responses saying that the limit on the built in IDE of
various Sun systems is 128Gb. This I new and the question hence was to
try to get around this limit using USB. So far I have not been able to
find a confirmation of using a PCI USB controller + large hard disk on
an Ultra 5.

My searches did however turn up a SCSI-IDE adapter which does support
the >137Gb IDE disks. I purchased one yesterday and it works 100% with a
standard PCI SCSI card fitted to the U5 (including booting). So if you
want cheap large SCSI storage checkout the Acard range of adapters.

See  www.acard.com for details.

Peter

Original question
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I have a customer who is trying to add some large 180Gb IDE disks in USB
2 chassis to his Ultra 5.

Anyone tried this and can recommend controllers/versions of software
etc.

Thanks

Peter
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