Brian Keefer wrote:
On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:32 AM, K H A I wrote:
Hello,
I receive sunfire V100 hardware wifh 512K RAM , IDE cdrom without
hard disk.
Does any one know it support regular ide hard drive?
Yes it does, but there is the limitation of the 137GB on it.
So, for example I use Seagate 160 GB, really nice and fast drives, in
more then 100 of these guys, as long as your partition it NOT to exceed
the limits, it works no problem.
Seagate I use are: ST31608-15A
Barracuda 7200.10
160 GBytes.
Not that you have to do this, but I partition mine as this:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 1049328 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
b: 8389584 1049328 swap
c: 312581808 0 unused 0 0
d: 2097648 9438912 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
e: 20972448 11536560 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
f: 2097648 32509008 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
g: 10486224 34606656 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
h: 2097648 45092880 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
i: 221244912 47190528 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
Just NEVER exceed the limits, and just let the rest of the drive wasted,
not a big deal in the full size, or the server WILL NOT BOOT!
Other then that, there isn't any problem. I have a few with 80Gb and
120GB as well, but this Seagate is screaming for the Sun and really get
them a second life. Really fast compare to the original one!
what bsd architecture support it? is it sparc 64 or sun ?
if any one has experience helps to make it work is greatly appreciated
since i
have no ideas.
SPARC64.
I have a Sunfire V120 sitting next to my desk here. I haven't got
around to installing OpenBSD on the hard drive yet, but I did boot off
the 4.4 CD to zero out the drive.
The architecture is sparc64, and (on the v120 at least) the storage is
SCSI, not IDE. All the crucial devices appeared to be supported by the
ramdisk kernel.
All works on the Sun V120. I have a few of them and no problem with it.
