Re: SUN Ultra 5 HDD compatibility

[Andras Barna <andras.barna%gmail.com@localhost>]

i'm using currently a 40g seagate (ST340014A)

2010/1/27 T. Volka <tom85%pilsfree.net@localhost>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> recently i revived long forgotten Sun Ultra 5 with the original four gig
> hardrive. After successful and joyful
> installation of latest NetBSD and some initional configuration i restarted
> the beast and noticed that the
> system struggled quite hard (audibly) to read certain data - followed by
> uncorrectable error reading wd0.
>
> Thus, i concluded that the HDD died and it's time for replacement. I
> remember that Ultras were able to
> support EIDE harddrives up to 20GB or so when running Solaris 8, but alas
> the technology progressed
> and i'm in search for a brand new HDD.
>
> Question is - what kind of HDD (size-wise) would be compatible?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>



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