Ultra 10 hard drive size limitation 1

[csross]

Does anyone know the hard drive size limitation on an Ultra 10. I'd like to put a 200G drive in. Will it just function or do I have to install/configure something?

Thanks

 

[bfitzmai]

I think this depends on the operating system you are using. I know Solaris 2.6 had a limitation of 9 GB. Seagate did come out with a 20 GB Disk that had firmware on to to run with Solaris 2.6. Looked on SunSolve but didn't find any information about later OS.

 

[mattaw]

Linux accepts no limits, as I think does the newer solaris OS but I cannot advise for certain. I am checking another source and will get back to you.

Matthew

The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

 

[daFranze]

afai-remember, there is a format.dat file; google for an entry, I'm sure it will help...

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[mattaw]

According to my suns info, its 128 GB

However the controller is poorly designed with several hardware bugs so its performance is very poor. It is also apparently finicky about which manufacturer it will talk to so try several drives first.

Suns IDE stuff was never very good.

Matthew

The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

 

[SamBones]

I have two 80GB IDE drives in my Ultra 10. I'm running Solaris 8. They went in, formatted, and mounted with no problems, other than the way the case opens is kind of funky. If I remember correctly, you need to know all the drives specs (heads, cylinders, etc). You don't need to edit format.dat, you can add your drive info through the "format" command. The drives formatted down to something like 72GB available each, but I've had no trouble with them at all. It's been a couple years since they went in, so I don't remember make or model off hand. I do recommend the fastest drives you can get. It makes a noticeable difference in overall system performance.

Hope this helps.

 

[jaytco]

I added a 120GB Maxtor with out any issues to an Ultra 5 running Solaris 9. --J

 

[raygg]

question for jtombre - I would like to do the same thing except I would like to add a 160gb or 200gb hd to an ultra 5. Obviously since you added a Maxtor - that is high on the list of brand names of drives I would select from. But I am the product of taking a unix admin course a few months ago and am fairly new to unix, I have installed the os many times - I am running solaris 8 on my ultra 5 - I have installed the os several times now. What is involved in swapping in a new big HD like that? Please respond - I have a project that depends on this. Do you recommend that I upgrade to Solaris 9?


Thank you.

raygg

 

[achech]

Make sure you have the newset OBP in your Ultra5/10.


Cheers,


Achech

 

[raygg]

what is OBP?

 

[achech]

OBP: Open Boot Prom, just like the BIOS for your PC.


Cheers,


Achech

 

[raygg]

how do I check this?

 

[achech]

Like this:

#prtconf -V
OBP 4.13.4 2004/05/19 18:35

Or, you can get it from banner.

Cheers,

Achech

 

[raygg]

Thank you