Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: Jim <n0oct@sbcglobal.net>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 15:53:26
On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>>>>> "d" == DataZap  <az@datazap.net> writes:
>>
>>      d> Could someone tell me if there is sparc hardware that is
>>      d> capable of having 2-250 gig (perferably 500 gig) hard drives?
>>
>> The onboard controller in the U5/U10 is not capable.  I think the
>> story is, in Solaris it caps drives to 128GB, and in NetBSD it will
>> work with larger drives but only at unacceptably slow speeds.
>
> What about SBus machines?  If someone could afford the $$, would a big
> SCSI drive work in one of those?  I have several Ultra 2's just  
> sitting
> here.

   Big SCSI drives work fine in pretty much all Sun machines.  SCSI  
doesn't suffer the limitations of IDE.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007