I have read the news articles, that Sun supports up to two 40gb
IDE disks in the SunFire V100. Running IDE disks up to 120gb
(137gb) does work.

Is there a third party disk driver I can by, which will allow me
to run 300gb IDE disks in a SunFire V100?

Alternatively I would consider a NETRA AX1105-500 in a 2HE
enclosure with 4 disks.


I need a relatively inexpensive log server, and our SunFire V100
machines are running out of space.


Regards
Andreas Buschmann

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Andreas Buschmann <buschman@asysha.asys-h.de> writes:

> Is there a third party disk driver I can by, which will allow me
> to run 300gb IDE disks in a SunFire V100?

If you have USB ports on the machine, you could try to install an USB
2.0 HDD enclosure (USB <-> ATA/ATAPI adapter) and install such a big
IDE disk into it.

Some time ago I tested a device using an USB chipset from Genesys
Logic (GL811), and Solaris 8 SPARC using the latest Solaris USB mass
storage device drivers was able to access all of a 180GB IDE disk.