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- From: wollborn@tnt.uni-hannover.de (Michael Wollborn)
- Subject: Re: 2 Gb drives on suns
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.082317.24315@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
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- Organization: Universitaet Hannover, Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik
- References: <1992Nov20.171429.5881@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:23:17 GMT
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- In article 5881@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca, dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.160256.27205@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca>
- >Rob.E.Allan@hydro.on.ca (Rob E. Allan) writes:
- >> We are considering the purchase of a 5.25" 2Gb SCSI Fujitsu drive.
- >> Does anyone know of any problems in attaching a disk of this size
- >> to a sun sparc (1-2) running SunOS 4.1.1? I seem to remember there were
- >> problems attaching a >1GB drive to suns in the past.
- >
- >I too would like to know of any problems with this - running under SunOS
- >4.1 actually. Sun Tech support gave me the impression that there may be a
- >patch available for SunOS 4.1(.1) that will allow 2GB disks to work. Does
- >anybody know about this? Thanks! (BTW, this is for a lab which we can't
- >upgrade to 4.1.2 or Solaris until next Spring).
- >--
- >David A. Ross, Programmer Analyst | dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca
- >Computing and Network Services | (NeXTmail welcome)
- >352 Gen Serv Bldg, Univ of Alberta | Phone: (403) 492-9339
- >Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 | Fax: (403) 492-1729
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- We have several 2GB disks here in a Cluster of Sun Sparc Workstations IPC/X
- running SunOS 4.1.2 without any serious problems, but of course I cannot
- give any warranties.
-
- Michael
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