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by **Hank Kingsle** » Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:38:45

I need to buy a bigger hard disk for my Ultra 5. It has a 9.1GB disk at
present and I want to ADD aonther disk. I've seen some disks out of a newer
U5 and they're 20GB Seagate Barracuda ATAII's. I believe this is a regular
disk used in many x86 PC's. Can I buy any popular x86 hard disk and use
that? Is there a size limit? I'm looking at buying a 40GB disk for my
Ultra 5. Are there PROM limitations like the PC has (i.e. 8GB disk size
limit).

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by **Alberto da Silv** » Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:38:11

> I need to buy a bigger hard disk for my Ultra 5. It has a 9.1GB disk at
> present and I want to ADD aonther disk. I've seen some disks out of a newer
> U5 and they're 20GB Seagate Barracuda ATAII's. I believe this is a regular
> disk used in many x86 PC's. Can I buy any popular x86 hard disk and use
> that? Is there a size limit? I'm looking at buying a 40GB disk for my
> Ultra 5. Are there PROM limitations like the PC has (i.e. 8GB disk size
> limit).

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Yes you can.

I've used IBM 30GB and 70GB disks.

For large disks you may need to update the eeprom and Solaris 8.
The eeprom is ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/106121*

Check groups.google.com for details.

Alberto

by **Rob Heale** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:44:36

Quote:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

regarding Ultra 5 IDE hard disks - can I use any PC hard disk?:

Quote:> I need to buy a bigger hard disk for my Ultra 5. It has a 9.1GB disk at
> present and I want to ADD aonther disk. I've seen some disks out of a
newer
> U5 and they're 20GB Seagate Barracuda ATAII's. I believe this is a
regular
> disk used in many x86 PC's. Can I buy any popular x86 hard disk and use
> that? Is there a size limit? I'm looking at buying a 40GB disk for my
> Ultra 5. Are there PROM limitations like the PC has (i.e. 8GB disk size
> limit).

Hard drives and CD/CDRW/DVD drives should work fine.

For Solaris 8 you'll need 108974-17 installed to actually be able to burn
with a CDR drive, some sort of
DMA foolishness in previous versions of the driver. You'll also have to
turn off the volume manager
for both cdrecord and sun's cdrw commands; although cdrw has the proper
calls to the volume manager
fixating the drive bombs if volume management is running.

-Rob