Re: Ultra 5 and large Hard drives - n00b ?

From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:28:06 +0100

John wrote:

> Have a Ultra 5 with the PROM patched and trying to add a new hard
> drive with much more space (160gig), unfortunately having difficulty
> getting it to recognize more than 8 gigs.

I wonder about all the answers as this should be a pretty clear thing.

The Ultra5/10's firmware limits the max. IDE disk size to 128GB. There is no
workaround, and it's not a Solaris limitation (depending on the version
Solaris might have some additional limits, though).

Get a drive not bigger than 128GB and You're set.

Benjamin