Re: Maximum disk size on a Shark

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Dec 12, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Does anyone know if there's a limit on the size of disk that the shark
> firmware can support?

Not really, but I doubt that it supports things like LBA.

> I recently bought a 80G laptop drive to put in it, but the firmware
> doesn't seem to be able to see it, and NetBSD install kernel can't  
> find
> it either (I think it just asks the OFW code).

The biggest disk I ever stuck in a shark is a 6GB Toshiba which worked  
just fine. I'd suspect the sharks limit around 8GB.

have fun
Michael

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