"Edward Hayes-Hall" <e.hayeshall@mchsi.com> wrote in message
newsPuKf.780975$x96.734406@attbi_s72...
> Hello,
>
> I recently picked up a second-hand SPARC Ultra5 with a 9Gb harddrive. The
> unit is very nice indeed for what I want to do.
>
> There is a slot in the front - above the floppy drive that can take a
second
> drive. The power source and cabling are all present in the inards of the
> box. I went hunting on the internel and found references to SUN
harddrives:
>
> SUN X5236A is the 9Gb 7200rpm IDE drive
> SUN X6174A is the 20Gb drive.
>
> Here's the question - one web site I found referred to the X6174A as
> equivalent to the Seagate Barracuda ST320414A hard drive. That led me to
> thinking - I recently put in a Seagate 200 Gb drive into my windows box.
>
> Is there anything that inherently prohibits me from putting a Seagate
drive
> bigger than 20Gb into the Ultra5 - something like the ST3120026A or
> ST380011A which are 80 or 120Gb drives that I can pick up at Best Buy
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Regards
>
>

If I recall all the discussions on this topic (within this group), the limit
is 120 GB ... due to the 137 GB limit on the HD controller.

So ... you should have not problems with the 80 or 120 GB you were
mentioning.

Cheers