In article <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605180456220.27080@anahata.ma.ic.a c.uk>,
andy thomas <andy@ic.ac.uk> writes:
> Someone has suggested to me that the largest disk that can be fitted to a
> StorEdge A5000 FC AL 14-bay disk array is 36.4 GB. Can anyone confirm
> this, or is this limit based on the largest disk available at the time the
> A5000 was sold?

I've got some 72G (1 inch, even) drives in one here.

> I've found with a lot of older Sun equipment that the maximum SCSI disk
> size quoted in the specs is historical and that you can in fact fit the
> largest disks available today (in most cases).

Mostly. Sun will tell you what's supported, which tends to be a
restricted list. Quite a lot of larger/newer drives will work, and
that's fine if you're not bothered about support.

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-Peter Tribble
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