From: Wade VanBuskirk (wade@psmfc.org)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 12:12:45 EST
Sunmanagers,
This is a followup digest of the responses to my original post. Thanks to all. I had the same problem after moving the 160GB drive to my 3 year old Windows PC with a promise Ultra66 IDE contoller which also has the latest PROM update. I was limited to 137GB again. It appears that manufacturers negelected to foresee outstripping Moore's Law as it pertains to storage technology.
-- FYI - Trends in disk drive density http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci862079,00.html -- Thanks again, Wade P.S. Yes, I checked the archives before I posted! ******* followup digest ******** Christopher Ventura wrote: > > Wade, > > Short and sweet... > > About 2 weeks ago I put a 40G drive in my Ultra 5 with no problem. Solaris 9 seems to be working just fine. > > Chris "Luc I. Suryo" wrote: > > have you checked the archives?? > > ide controller == 24-bits == max 137GB > > unless the eprom fix the 24-bits limitation it will not work > you need to have a 48-bits ide controller. > but let me know if you find something else post a summary > > btw to see if it works follow the #head but up the cyls # > i have a 200GB (WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0) (only able to use 126GB) with: > cyl 65534 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255 > > -- > Kind regards, > Luc Suryo joe.fletcher@btconnect.com wrote: > > Could be wrong but didn't someone say recently that > the Ultra5s have a limitation to around 120Gb due to > the on-board controllers? A quick archive search should > confirm/deny. > > Cheers Mike's List wrote: > > You cannot because the controller on the U5 is built onto the MB and it > is "old" therefore, no matter what OBP version you have it will not > recognize beyond the 137G limit. > > - Mike Tim Chipman wrote: > > I believe that > 130 gig will not be supported on sun IDE hardware, due > to 48 vs 60 bit addressing issues in hardware for IDE controllers. > > same limitation applies to PC systems as well, ie, if the hardware > doesn't support the new spec for extra-large (>~130 gigs) HDDs then you > are SHOL. > > HTH, > > Tim Pablo Jejcic wrote: > > There is a limitation on the IDE Bus, I don't remember the limit, but is > wide less than 160Gb > > Kind Regards. -- Wade Van Buskirk - 503-650-5400, http://www.psmfc.org/~wade _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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