SUMMARY: up to 137 gigs limitation by controller, no problems with 80 GB Seagate on Solaris 8 or 9 has been detected. /* A lot of thanks to: Mark Day Andrew Hay Scott Spencer Ric Anderson Tim Chipman Marcelino Mata and happy Thanksgiving! */ ________________________________________ Hi fellow gurus, we need to replace IDE hard drives in some Ultra 10 boxes. Did anybody try to use widely available now 80 GB drives? _______________________________________ We've ordered several batches now, and have just used whatever 80 GB OEM Seagate drives we were shipped. I want to say that there was a transition from Barracuda III to Barracuda IV during that period, but that is from memory. I would expect that pretty much *any* 80 GB ATA drive would work. We went with Seagate just because their drives are a little bit quieter, and we've had good luck with them in the past. ______________________________________ it's been done. the trick is - depending on how old your solaris is - to -not- rely on format to discover disk geometry, but rather enter it by hand. and s2.6 [for instance] has ultimate limits of 64h * 255s * 16383c, so you may have to play with the maker's recommended geometry to make it fit. _______________________________________ No, but I am using Western Digital 120GB caviar drives in Ultra-10s (300Mhz) with no problem, running Solaris 8 2/02. Bigger drives will not work due to hardware in the on board IDE controller Earlier versions of SunOS have problems with large IDE drives as outlined in http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html Question 5.64. _________________________________________ Anatoliy, We've installed pairs of 40GB HD's but not an 80. Best idea is to give it a try. You can always return the HD if it doesn't work. The only issue is would the entire 80GB be usable or just partial. Let me know if you can use any more Ultra 10's or any other Sun H/W in the future. ___________________________________________ so long as you are on solaris8 or later, it shouldn't be a problem. The "problem" typically arises when you get to the HW limitation of the IDE controller used in these boxes, which is approx 130gigs. I've added (personally) 20gig 3rd party drives to U5 systems ; 20,40,60 gig drives to blade100 systems. Never had a problem. Lots of online docs concurr with this general theory of life. Hope this helps a bit, Tim ___________________________________________ You are limited to 137Gb on Ultra 10 and Solaris 8. Solaris 6/7 has lower limits. 137Gb is limit of IDE controller. -- Anatoliy Lisovskiy, Senior Unix Administrator, Engineering Support Genesys, an Alcatel company (415) 355-5039 (work) (415) 572-4127 (cell) _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Nov 26 17:07:20 2003
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