"llothar" <llothar@web.de> writes:

>To write a device driver in the late 90'th that does not work with
>_ALL_ modern ATAPI cdroms is just a failure of the programmers and
>terrible ignorance from Sun. I've never seen such problems with
>anything operating system except Solaris.

I have not seen issues with other CD drives in Ultra 10s.

Though OpenBoot may refuse to boot from DVDs.

>And the Sun guys don't do anything against it. Even with modern
>supported IDE controllers you are limited to 120 GB with Solaris 10.
>This sucks, sucks, sucks.

There's no such limitation in Solaris 10. There's such a limitation
in Ultra-5/10 hardware.

So how big is this disk[1]?

0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 30398 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@f/ide@0/cmdk@0,0

No tricks, no issues; just plain IDE.

Casper

[1] 250 SI GBs.
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