I have put a 40Gb disk not in an Ultra 10, but in an Ultra 5, which ought to
be the same controller... It worked fine out-of-the-box. Is the 8Gb
limitation possibly dependent on a flash prom revision, perhaps?

Dan

On 3/29/02 8:09 AM, "Martin Husemann" <martin@duskware.de> wrote:

>> I have to decide if to buy a ultra 10 or a ultra 60.
> 
> Someone told me the rule of thumb for PCI based ultra sparcs is:
> if x > y then prefere a Ux to an Uy
> 
>> ARe both well supported by netbsd?
> 
> Not sure, I let other answer this.
> 
>> Then I wanted to ask if there is any way to get rid of the 8GB limitation
>> in IDE disk. I Remember I had this problem on a Ultra 10 running solaris.
>> Does this applies also to NetBSD?
> 
> No:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> ...
> /dev/wd1a    75754803 37010231 34956831    51%    /mp3
> 
> Beware that the U10 (IIRC) does not do UDMA with it's build in pciide
> controller, I don't know about the U60.
> 
> Martin
>