Dear Managers Thanks to all who replied. However the most useful replies came from : Coy Hile Peter Kunst Looks like Solaris 7 can support SCSI disks larger than 32GB, but with IDE there seem to be some restrictions. Coy Hile wrote >Any SCSI disk will work fine. Some of the machines that use ATA disks (the >Ultra 5 and 10, specifically) do no support!LBA mode addressing and are thus >limited to a maximum size of 137GB per disk. Peter Kunst wrote >Solaris7 supports SCSI disks larger than 32GB. in case of IDE, >it depends on hardware version. i know some Ultra10's >recognizing 120GB IDE disks as 32GB disks only, but others will >see those drives as 120GB. >disk size / partition size limit is also an issue regarding used >hardware. e.g. on a sparc10 (microsparc processor family), the >root partition must be smaller than 2GB to be able to boot. >8GB is also the limit for nfs protocol version 2 exported partitions. >accessing partitions >8GB from another nfsV2 client can make data on >disk unreadable/corrupt. Regards shiroma _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Mar 30 23:43:32 2005
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