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Hello all,

A quick question on Sparc Station 5.

Can I use 18GB hard disk with Sparc Station 5 ?. I searched sunsolve documentation. It gives info only upto 4.2 GB for sparcstaton 5.


The OS is SunOS 5.5.1

Thank You,

Hello,
in my opinion it is no problem.
I use 9 GB on a Sparc 5 with Solaris 8
regards joerg

Solaris 8 will support the bigger drives - Solaris 2.5.1 may not. If you want to use the 18GB drive, you would have to upgrade your OS (and even that isn't a sure thing - according to documentation you might not be able to use 2.5.1.- it matters what the 18GB drive is in )

From Sunsolve:
DISK ARRAY Minimum OS Release
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StorEdge A1000 2.5.1 HW 8/97 or later
StorEdge A3500 2.5.1[Note 8] + RM 6.1.1 Update 1 or later
StorEdge A3500FC 2.6 or later
StorEdge A5x00 2.5.1 HW 11/97[Note 9] or later
StorEdge D1000 2.5.1 HW 8/97[Note 10] or later
StorEdge T3/T3+ 2.6 or later + minimum set of patches (see T3 Software/Firmware Configuration matrix)
StorEdge 3310 8
StorEdge 3900/6900 8 10/01
StorEdge 9910/9960 2.6
StorEdge 9970/9980 Depends on the server. See Sun StorEdge 9970 and 9980 Systems: What Works With What
StorEdge D2 8 Plus recommended patch cluster
StorEdge S1 2.6

Also see Sunsolve - Sparc 5 hardware - a 18GB drive will not go inside.

Hi,

Infact I am planning to use the 18GB harddisk as unipack.
I mean I wont be plugging it in the the box, but connect as an external harddisk.

But from your openion, it looks like I will have to go for an OS upgrade, but that may not be possible due to certain specific applications running in the box.

Well, If I could make it, I will update this post.

Thanks again..