Re: Upgrading the hardrive in a Sun Blade 150

I can't figure out which ATA spec it uses. Seems like it's either ATA/
66 or ATA/100. It's not really clear whether it's subject to the
137GB barrier or not.

P.S. It's nice for you to offer up knowledge, but no need to bust on
my hardware. I know it's old, but nobody is offering to buy me a new
one.

On Mar 10, 4:59 pm, Doug McIntyre <mer...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cgeb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I am upgrading a Sun Blade 150. It currently has 1GB of RAM and a
40GB harddrive. It is running Solaris 8. I was going to put four
512MB sticks of ECC PC133 memory and a 500GB UATA/100 harddrive in
it. Are there any compatibility issues with these upgrades?

Yes.

The Blade 150 is pre Ultra-ATA standard, thus its onboard ATA
controller can only address 128GB of drive. It could end up seeing
128GB of the drive, or maybe less, depending on lots of things on how
the drive interacts with the ancient ATA controller. This is much like
any Sun (or PC) hardware of the era.

The memory should be fine, the Blade 150 can address 4GB of DRAM, and
as you spec, it is PC133 ECC DIMMs. Not sure why I'd bother on such a
slow small system myself.

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