SUMMARY: U5 and Large IDE Disk
I got quite a number of emails from people using Western Digital HDs >100gig
w/out error on U5/10s. Most replies from Maxtor owners complained they were
unable to use >30 GB. Before this Maxtor I had a 45gig WD drive and it
worked w/out error.
One requirement is the 108974-x patch which fixes some issues with large IDE
drives.
I have since moved to a 100gig WD drive and put the Maxtor in my desktop
machine :)
thanks a bunch,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Glaves [mailto:glaves at pinn.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:20 AM
To:codeprof at codeprof.com
Subject: U5 and Large IDE Disk
I have an older U5 270 running Solaris 8. I previously had a 40gig drive in
the workstation and have replaced it with a 120gig Maxtor. The drive comes
up as 20gig in format, once I enter the drive info from Maxtor's site, it
comes up as 10gig.
The drive is a Maxtor 4G120J6. Their page says it is 16,382 cyclinders,
16HDs, and 63 sectors. I entered this into format and it comes up as 10gig.
Here is what format says out of the box:
2 backup wu 0 - 41605 20.00GB (41606/0/0) 41938848
I had no idea if I could use all 120gigs of this drive, but my guess was
that it would be able to use somewhere between 80-100gig of it.
Any help would be great.
thanks,
Matt
