Christopher Intemann wrote:
Hi,
does anyone here have experience with OpenBSD on a Sun Netra X1 server?
I read somewhere that it does only support hard drives up to 137GB of size.
Yes the limit is 137 GB and I said that and it's tested as well. I
posted that long ago, but again I guess two or three weeks ago on a
bridge question. No there isn't.
> Is there any way to avoid this restriction?
Don't even try it, or your box WILL not boot.
I read somewhere (else) that using a PCI-IDE controller could do the trick.
Well, not sure about that. Why you say it would do the trick? Unless
that PCI have it's own logic and all, witch I would not think it would
anyway. That box only support IDE, so you have no choice here.
But even a nice new IDE works very well there.
I used: ST3160815A from Seagate, a very nice drive, pretty darn fast and
nice cache as well on the drive. Or an 80GB ST380215A.
It does give a second life to these boxes.
However could not find any information if I could boot from discs connected
via a PCI-IDE controller.
Yes you can, but obviously use an external one. Pretty easy to do, then
you removed it after that.
Any hints?
If you have any issue, I would be more then happy to help you get it
going, but do your homework firs,t it couldn't be simpler to do really.
Best,
Daniel
