On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:30:00 +0000, dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN.
Nichols) wrote:

>According to Michael Tosch <eedmit@NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se>:
>> indyszeto wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm a newbie to Sun H/W & S/W. Recently I found some cheap 2nd hand Sun
>> > Ultra 5 stations available in my city (CPU, RAM, CD drive available but
>> > no HD). I want to buy one for use. I read some common configuration at
>> > HP that the station uses EIDE HD. Does it mean that I can use EIDE HD
>> > commonly used for PC ?
>>
>> Yes.
>> Immediate installation might fail due to "missing disk label".
>> Then run the "format" program, select the disk, and label it.
>
> This is because all EIDE drives from the average computer store
>are pre-formatted for Windows, and Solaris uses a very different format.
>
> Also -- beware not to get too big a EIDE drive. IIRC, anything
>under 120 GB is fine, over you hit some magic threshold which the
>hardware can't handle.

The EIDE specified a 28 bit value to represent a sector. (2 ^ 28)
sectors * 512 bytes/sectors = 268,435,456 * 512 = 137,438,953,472 or
128GB.

Josh