andy thomas <andy@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
: 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 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).

Probably true, that last statement.

We have a few A5200's with 73GB's in them (seagate st373405fc), not even sun
branded and they work fine. Firmware revisions should match though, even on
smaller drive capacities.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com