I am now in the process of trying to find the best type of hard drive
for my newly acquired sparc 5.

It has a 1 gig drive that is internal (sca) and it works fine but its
only a 1 gig drive.

I do not have any other sca drives though. All i have access to are
lvd scsi drives. I put them into an exteranl scsi case and used a
standard 50 pin header to lvd adapter. (are there any problems with
that?)

I have been having problems getting the system to recogize these
drives. They are drives that have been used in windows computers with
no problems.

I put the 18 gig drive and then I boot to the redhat 6.2 cd. I start
the install but it doesn't appear to like the existing data on the
drive, it fouls out.

What is the best way to wipe a drive completely for new partitioning
with linux/solaris?

Also what size drives are suppored under the sparc 5?