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Old 01-16-2008, 02:03 PM
Josh McKee
 
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Default Re: Bigger disks in an Ultra2

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:26:16 +0200, "Frank-Christian Kruegel"
<dontmailme@news.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:15:06 +0100, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com> wrote:
>
>>Are there any constraints (power is the obvious worry, the machine
>>will be a long way away and I don't want anything to fry) to putting
>>larger SCSI disks in an Ultra2? Specifically I want to put a couple
>>of 18GB drives as we're going to need more than the current 4.xGB
>>disks for Solaris 10!

>
>There is no size limit for scsi disks. The only constrains are the 2GB limit
>for the root fs (i.e. the root filesystem must be located completely within
>the first 2GB of the boot disk) and the 1TB UFS size limit.


This restriction is not applicable to the sun4u platform. It was a
limitation on 32-bit systems. On older 32-bit systems the limit was
1GB.

Josh
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