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johnnynieh
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 Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: Hardware Compatibility? |
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| Silly Question, for my Ultra 5/360 IIi, can I just go out to BestBuy or CompUSA or somewhere retailer store to buy *any* EIDE hdd and replace the hard drive to my will? is there any compatibility issue? |
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Weeve
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| It should work fine. I'm not sure if there is a size limitation at all, but I don't believe so. Several users and a couple developers have replaced the default IDE drives. Just keep in mind that the IDE controller in a U5 is UMDA33, and you're lucky to get those rates on a good day. |
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Mark Clegg
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Worked fine for me, you just have to remember to zap the MS-DOS partition table if it' got one and put a Sun disklabel on instead.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd? bs=1k count=1
fdisk /dev/hd? |
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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There is a limit, but it's somewhere over the 100GByte mark...
[edit]M? uh, G...[/edit] |
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bazik
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | There is a limit, but it's somewhere over the 100GByte mark...
[edit]M? uh, G...[/edit] |
AFAIK the limit is 137GB on x86. I had a 120GB disk in my U5 but I didnt try larger. But the limit on x86 is due to 32bit addresses which should not exist in the 64bit OBP (IMO).
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GenTimJS
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: disk label failures |
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Dont be so quick to rush out...
I have an ultra5 and have a non-original hard disk, which is of the same type as one of the models originally shipped with the ultra5.
Linux is nice and happy with "any" disks I toss in it and label (so far)
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solaris will eat you alive.... I've spent days, nay weeks, and have yet to get solaris to either A) read a linux-created disk label, or B) correctly label a drive on its own (i know how to use the solaris FORMAT command).
I dont know if this experience differs much in SCSI systems, though I know in my ultra1 I had no problem at all making solaris and linux see/use the same drives pretty much "first try"
So just be carefull what you want to do with the drive before you go spend cash on one.
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bazik
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: disk label failures |
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| GenTimJS wrote: | solaris will eat you alive.... I've spent days, nay weeks, and have yet to get solaris to either A) read a linux-created disk label, or B) correctly label a drive on its own (i know how to use the solaris FORMAT command).
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Heh sorry, I personally dont even *think* of using Solaris on any of my Sparcs 
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GenTimJS
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject: slowaris |
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I normally wouldnt either. however my job (consultant) requires that I maintain solaris proficiency and not "get rusty" ... but man, am I rusty .... lol
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