In article <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605181607220.27751@anahata.ma.ic.a c.uk>,
andy thomas <andy@ic.ac.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Peter Tribble wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I've an E150 with 12 x 300 GB disks - the original spec for this elderly
> server was 9.1 GB maximum :-)

Ouch!

I remember years ago swapping all the original 2.1G drives in an E150
for 4.2G. At the time, that seemed a major step.

Where I have had problems is trying to put old disks into newer
machines. Particularly on SCSI busses capable of UltraSCSI speeds. Some
older drives think they can cut it so they try and operate at the
higher speed, but really can't and that can cause all sorts of
problems.

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-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/