[Gllug] Modern (large) IDE drives in a Sun Ultra 5

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:54:59PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if it's possible to plug modern IDE drives (I think
> they are both 40 or 60 GB) into a Sun Ultra 5?  The drives are a
> software RAID 1 pair, formatted under Linux on i386, and I'd like to
> get the data off on the only working machine I've got here which is
> the aforementioned Sun, running Debian GNU/Linux.
> 
> To be honest, I'm going to try this later on.  But I'd kind of like to
> know if it's a complete non-starter before I get my screwdriver out
> and dismantle both machines.
> 
> Rich.

As long as you're not also using Solaris on that machine, then a 40GB 
or 60GB drive should be fine.

Drives larger than 137GB will run into an LBA limit:
    http://sunportal.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2003-May/003775.html

- John
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