Depending on the firmware, you might be limited to around 20GB as the first
drive in the system.  The machine didn't want to talk to the 120GB drive I
had handy.

Hunt around, you can pick up 20G drives for next to nothing, and I added a
PCI SCSI controller connected to external storage.  Runs very sweetly for me

Cheers,

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From: port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Lorenz
Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2006 11:29 AM
To: emr96@columbia.edu
Cc: port-sparc64@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: Request HW Compatibility Ultra 10 and new HD

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Hello,

>> 1/ Will NetBSD work for the Ultra 10 sparc?

Yes.

>> 2/ It is complicated/possible to change out the hard disk [put in 
>> something with larger capacity], and have NetBSD easily 
>> accommodate/format it?

Not at all complicated, internal disks are likely ordinary IDE disks. 
You might want to use a SCSI controller though since the onboard IDE chip
doesn't support any UDMA mode, only PIO4. The firmware supports a few
SymBIOS chips directly ( so it's bootable even with incompatible or no ROM
on the card ), like the 53C875 UW-SCSI controller which is fairly easy to
find ( should be pretty cheap as well ).

have fun
Michael
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