Hello,

I recently picked up a second-hand SPARC Ultra5 with a 9Gb harddrive. The
unit is very nice indeed for what I want to do.

There is a slot in the front - above the floppy drive that can take a second
drive. The power source and cabling are all present in the inards of the
box. I went hunting on the internel and found references to SUN harddrives:

SUN X5236A is the 9Gb 7200rpm IDE drive
SUN X6174A is the 20Gb drive.

Here's the question - one web site I found referred to the X6174A as
equivalent to the Seagate Barracuda ST320414A hard drive. That led me to
thinking - I recently put in a Seagate 200 Gb drive into my windows box.

Is there anything that inherently prohibits me from putting a Seagate drive
bigger than 20Gb into the Ultra5 - something like the ST3120026A or
ST380011A which are 80 or 120Gb drives that I can pick up at Best Buy

Thanks in advance for the help.

Regards

"Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote in message
newsPuKf.780975$x96.734406@attbi_s72...
> Hello,
>
> I recently picked up a second-hand SPARC Ultra5 with a 9Gb harddrive. The
> unit is very nice indeed for what I want to do.
>
> There is a slot in the front - above the floppy drive that can take a
second
> drive. The power source and cabling are all present in the inards of the
> box. I went hunting on the internel and found references to SUN
harddrives:
>
> SUN X5236A is the 9Gb 7200rpm IDE drive
> SUN X6174A is the 20Gb drive.
>
> Here's the question - one web site I found referred to the X6174A as
> equivalent to the Seagate Barracuda ST320414A hard drive. That led me to
> thinking - I recently put in a Seagate 200 Gb drive into my windows box.
>
> Is there anything that inherently prohibits me from putting a Seagate
drive
> bigger than 20Gb into the Ultra5 - something like the ST3120026A or
> ST380011A which are 80 or 120Gb drives that I can pick up at Best Buy
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Regards
>
>

If I recall all the discussions on this topic (within this group), the limit
is 120 GB ... due to the 137 GB limit on the HD controller.

So ... you should have not problems with the 80 or 120 GB you were
mentioning.

Cheers

* Me * wrote:
> "Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote in message
> newsPuKf.780975$x96.734406@attbi_s72...
[...]
> >Is there anything that inherently prohibits me from putting a Seagate
> > drive bigger than 20Gb into the Ultra5 -
[...]
>
> If I recall all the discussions on this topic (within this group), the limit
> is 120 GB ... due to the 137 GB limit on the HD controller.
>
> So ... you should have not problems with the 80 or 120 GB you were
> mentioning.

A further note the above: When I replaced the drive in my Ultra 5, I
recall being advised to stay away from PC-specific drives that were not
ATA/133 (or less) compatible. Unfortunately, I cannot find the source
of the warning. (This does not apply to the ones above as they are
ATA/100.)

john

"Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote in message
newsPuKf.780975$x96.734406@attbi_s72...
> Hello,
>
> I recently picked up a second-hand SPARC Ultra5 with a 9Gb harddrive. The
> unit is very nice indeed for what I want to do.
>
> -- snip --
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Regards
>
>

Thanks to everyone for input. I took this plus some extra homework and am
going to spend Saturday performing some minor surgery on my Ultra.

Thanks to all,
Edward

"Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote:

>
>"Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote in message
>newsPuKf.780975$x96.734406@attbi_s72...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently picked up a second-hand SPARC Ultra5 with a 9Gb harddrive. The
>> unit is very nice indeed for what I want to do.
>>
>> -- snip --
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>
>Thanks to everyone for input. I took this plus some extra homework and am
>going to spend Saturday performing some minor surgery on my Ultra.
>
>Thanks to all,
>Edward
>

I did this to mine awhile ago.

Suggestion: cover the aluminum sheet above the floppy drive with plastic tape.
There is a potential of contact with the controller electronics.

Dave.