Questions about hard drive on Sun Blade 100
ohaya
Due to work, as some of you who have participated in the patching thread
I had recently, I've had to refresh my old Sun Blade. I'm pretty sure
that I upgraded the hard drive to a 120GB drive awhile ago, and for the
patching testing, I had restored a Solaris 9 image using FLAR. During
that exercise, I noticed that during the Flash install, it was only
letting me configure about 60GB.
I think that I may have partitioned the 120GB drive awhile ago, but as I
said, it's been over a year since working with this system. So, I was
wondering how I can take a look at the partitioning on the drive?
Thanks,
Jim
Richard B. Gilbert
I'll take a W.A.G. here and say "try format".
ohaya
Richard,
Here's "df -h":
bash-2.05# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 48G 1.5G 46G 4% /
/proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 3.6G 40K 3.6G 1% /var/run
swap 3.6G 0K 3.6G 0% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 4.8G 4.9M 4.8G 1% /export/home
and here's the format->part->print:
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 1029 - 26208 48.99GB (25180/0/0) 102734400
1 swap wu 0 - 1028 2.00GB (1029/0/0) 4198320
2 backup wm 0 - 28719 55.87GB (28720/0/0) 117177600
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 26209 - 28718 4.88GB (2510/0/0) 10240800
Like I said, it's been a long time, so I hope that you all will bear
with me.
I guess the first thing I'm trying to do is assess if the drive is a
120GB? It's all very vague, but I had started with the original 15GB
drive, then I *think* I swapped in a 60GB drive, then I think I got a
new 120GB drive for this machine. I'd like to avoid having to open the
machine up, as it's pretty much "buried" behind some stuff.
I vaguely seem to recall that I had to "label" the drive or something,
but I don't exactly remember why.
Anyway, from the above, can you (or anyone else) tell the size of the
hard drive? Or, if not, what other commands do I need to do?
If someone could provide a quick refresher on how to read that "part"
output, that'd be good also.
Thanks for the patience.
Jim
ohaya
ohaya wrote:
Hi,
Ahh. I think that I found at least the first part of what I was looking
for:
bash-2.05# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <WDC WD600BB-75CAA0 cyl 28720 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255>
/pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0
So, it looks like what's in the Sun Blade is a 60GB WD drive.
Is that correct?
Old age must really be setting in, because I could have sworn that I
installed a 120GB drive :)...
Jim
Canuck57
"ohaya" <oh...@cox.net> wrote in message
news:aDkom.170594$Qg6.1...@newsfe14.iad...
It sure looks like a 60GB drive.
On a X100, similar but a rack mount system I have put a 160GB drive in with
success and using solaris 10.
Richard B. Gilbert
From what I can see the drive is 58GB. Bear in mind that the size of
disk drives is a rather slippery concept, at least for advertising and
labeling purposes. Is a "megabyte" 2^20 or 10^6? Or maybe even
1024*1000? We would use 2^20 and the marketing people would use an
interpretation that yielded a "larger" size.
This practice might not be as prevalent as it was a few years ago but
marketing will always prefer the larger number.
Ronald L. Johnson
Older Sun boxes need firmware updates to to deal with larger IDE drives. I'm
not sure what kind of drives are in a Sun Blade 1000 (I have a Sun Blade
2000 and it has fiber channel drives) but this is only an issue with non
SCSI drives.
Ron
Ronald L. Johnson
>> 0. c0t0d0 <WDC WD600BB-75CAA0 cyl 28720 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255>
>> /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0
That's a 60gb drive.
Ron
ohaya
Hi Ron,
Actually, I think that I had done the firmware upgrade awhile ago. It
wasn't for the larger hard drive (I'm pretty sure I *did* put a 120GB in
at one point), but to get the Sun Blade to work with a Plextor CD burner.
The Sun Blade 100 and 150 use mostly "normal" PC type components (IDE
drives, PCI bus, etc.), which is one reason that I got the 100 (for
~$100 off of Ebay). In fact, I also added a USB2 card, plus upgraded
the memory to the full 2GB. It's a rather nice machine for
development/testing now :)...
Jim
Thanks,
Jim
Richard B. Gilbert
Sun IDE controllers, or at least the older ones, do not recognize more
than 128GB on a disk. You can install a 300 GB drive but the Sun
controller will not be able to access anything but the first 128GB.
I don't find this a great hardship. Having come out of the dark ages of
computing, I'm accustomed to working with "small" disk drives. 80 GB is
more than sufficient.
AFAIK, the only way to use a BIG disk on Sun systems is to use SCSI;
either wired or fiber channel. It's possible that you could install a
third party IDE controller that lacked the 127GB limit but it hardly
seems worth the trouble.