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Hi everybody,
I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?

Thanks,
Luca


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Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
> 4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
> replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
> work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
>
I'm using a 40 GB disk. Make sure you have current firmware (patch
106121-18).

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Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
> 4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
> replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
> work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
>

I heard there is a limit of 137 (or close to that) GB.

The system admin at work installed a 120 GB Seagate. I just tried to run
format to see why type it is, but not having root priviledges, I can't
tell you. But I know it was 120 GB and works okay.

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:18:49 +0100, David Kirkby wrote:

> The system admin at work installed a 120 GB Seagate. I just tried to run
> format to see why type it is, but not having root priviledges, I can't
> tell you. But I know it was 120 GB and works okay.

$ iostat -nE

"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:41700F02.6060604@prodigy.net

> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
> > 4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
> > replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
> > work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Luca
> >
> >
> I'm using a 40 GB disk. Make sure you have current firmware (patch
> 106121-18).

Thank you very much, I'll try next week. However I've got another
question
(excuse me, but I'm still a newbie of the sun world):how can I install
the patch
since I don't have a disk running? The instructions that come along the
patch say to
set up a device alias, but I don't know how to do this. For example, if
I have the
patch on a floppy (or a cdrom), what do I have to do?

Thanks,
Luca



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Luca Ferrari wrote:
> "CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:41700F02.6060604@prodigy.net
>
>
>>Luca Ferrari wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everybody,
>>>I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
>>>4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
>>>replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
>>>work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Luca
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I'm using a 40 GB disk. Make sure you have current firmware (patch
>>106121-18).
>
>
> Thank you very much, I'll try next week. However I've got another
> question
> (excuse me, but I'm still a newbie of the sun world):how can I install
> the patch
> since I don't have a disk running? The instructions that come along the
> patch say to
> set up a device alias, but I don't know how to do this. For example, if
> I have the
> patch on a floppy (or a cdrom), what do I have to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
>
>
I don't recall the precise command, and don't have a machine handy that
I can halt right now for experimentation, but there's an OBP command
that will list the device aliases. You should be able to find the
floppy (or cd) in that list. I think it's something simple and
unsurprising like "floppy" although it might be "floppy1" or some such
thing. I believe you can also use the full (unaliased) description.

The "Help" OBP command should help you find the right command to list
aliases.

It's also possible to traverse and display the device tree with commands
like cd and ls to determine everything the OBP knows about. Extensive
documentation for the OBP is available at docs.sun.com

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CJT wrote:
> Luca Ferrari wrote:
>
>> "CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
>> news:41700F02.6060604@prodigy.net
>>
>>
>>> Luca Ferrari wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
>>>> 4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
>>>> replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
>>>> work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Luca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using a 40 GB disk. Make sure you have current firmware (patch
>>> 106121-18).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much, I'll try next week. However I've got another
>> question
>> (excuse me, but I'm still a newbie of the sun world):how can I install
>> the patch
>> since I don't have a disk running? The instructions that come along the
>> patch say to
>> set up a device alias, but I don't know how to do this. For example, if
>> I have the
>> patch on a floppy (or a cdrom), what do I have to do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
>>
>>
>>
> I don't recall the precise command, and don't have a machine handy that
> I can halt right now for experimentation, but there's an OBP command
> that will list the device aliases. You should be able to find the
> floppy (or cd) in that list. I think it's something simple and
> unsurprising like "floppy" although it might be "floppy1" or some such
> thing. I believe you can also use the full (unaliased) description.
>
> The "Help" OBP command should help you find the right command to list
> aliases.
>
> It's also possible to traverse and display the device tree with commands
> like cd and ls to determine everything the OBP knows about. Extensive
> documentation for the OBP is available at docs.sun.com
>

BTW, if your system is set up the standard way, the devalias of the
cd-rom drive is (unsurprisingly) "cdrom" (without the quotes) -- I'm
less sure of the floppy drive because I haven't used it in a long time,
but I think it's just "floppy".

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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:21:09 +0000, CJT wrote:

> It's also possible to traverse and display the device tree with commands
> like cd and ls to determine everything the OBP knows about. Extensive
> documentation for the OBP is available at docs.sun.com

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/OBP.html

Jumpering that Quantum 30GB drive to "Device Select" might be of some
help, too.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:21:09 +0000, CJT wrote:
>
>
>>It's also possible to traverse and display the device tree with commands
>>like cd and ls to determine everything the OBP knows about. Extensive
>>documentation for the OBP is available at docs.sun.com
>
>
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/OBP.html

.... via which one can determine it's the "devalias" command I was
struggling to recall, which will display all current device aliases.

>
> Jumpering that Quantum 30GB drive to "Device Select" might be of some
> help, too.
>


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"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:41700F02.6060604@prodigy.net

> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I've got an old sun ultra sparc 5 workstation that was using a seagate
> > 4GB hard disk. Now the disk has broken, so I have to decide the disk to
> > replac with, but a first test with a quantum fireball 30 GB did not
> > work. Which size of ATA disk can I mount on this kind of workstation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Luca
> >
> >
> I'm using a 40 GB disk. Make sure you have current firmware (patch
> 106121-18).

I've installed that patch, but when I try to install Solaris 9 over the
disk (connected in CS mode)
I got the following messages while copying the mini root:
WARNING: timeout: reset chno = 0 bus = 0
WARNING: drive not ready before set_features
transport reject (-2)

Any idea?

Thanks,
Luca



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