Re: Ultra 10 max HDD capacity?
Hi, On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:47:43AM +, Chris Newport wrote: > The physical limit is 137Gb, which effectively limits you to the nearest > normal size of 120Gb. I have a 120Gb drive working OK here. > Chris Andrew wrote: > >Sun suggest that the max HDD capacity for Ultra 10's is 20.4 Gb, is > >there any reason why (under linux), we can't use bigger? I don't need > >bigger, but it's easier to buy big than small, these days. I have a 160 GB IDE working without any problem so far on my Ultra 10. hdb: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, (U)DMA Beyond the limit, there is no end. :) Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra 5 disk performance [Was: More storage for my Ultra10]
Hi, On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:24:57PM -0700, darin strait wrote: > > The system was equipped with its original IDE disk and a newer 200GB > > one (btw: all 200gigs are available with newer 2.6 kernels). > I had gotten an email off-list from someone else who had put a large > disk into his system and had it work. I had thought that the drive size > limitation was a hardware problem (a lack of addressing bits), at least > with x86 PC hardware. Am I wrong, or does it not matter somehow since > this is Sun hardware? I have a 160GB IDE disk working flawlessly on an Ultra10 (well... I begin not to stand anymore the noise of the fans of this host). :-) hdb: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive hdb: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, (U)DMA > (fwiw, I would like to stick with 2.4 primarily because 2.6 has a bad > bug involving the parallel printer port. I believe that this bug is > still open.) # uname -r 2.4.27-2-sparc64 > The old 9 GB IDE was giving me trouble last week (read errors), so I > swapped a spare 120 GB I had from another project into the U10. I was > getting around 12.5 mb/s with the old disk, now I get about 15 mb/s > with the 120 GB disk (which is a bog-standard,n not-a-speed-demon > disk). It's noticably quicker, but I'm still interesting in size rather > than speed. I won't be able read or write files faster than 100 mbit > ethernet speeds, regardless of what sort of disk(s) are in the server. # hdparm -tT /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 640 MB in 2.00 seconds = 320.00 MB/sec Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 46 MB in 3.02 seconds = 15.23 MB/sec Best regards, Frederic Lehobey signature.asc Description: Digital signature
dhcp breakage
Hi, On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:14:07PM -0500, Art Haas wrote: > Just the other day I updated my machine to the latest packages that the > 'unstable' branch of Debian offers, and things ran fine for a while. > After shutting the machine off, I disconnected the ethernet cable to > plug in another machine, did some stuff on that machine, then > reconnected the SS20 to fiddle around on it for a while. Now, when the > networking part of the the boot sequence is run, the 'eth0' interface > doesn't start. It had been working flawlessly with 'dhclient' connecting > to the router, but now the thing doesn't seem to find the router. I was I have lately experienced such things on 2 different sparc64 machines running sid (Ultra 1 and Ultra 5). pump -i (#321990) and dhcp3-client (#321993) seem both to be broken currently but dhcp-client works fine for me. > able to establish a connection after the boot sequence began once by > typing 'dhclient eth0' at a prompt, but after another shutdown and restart > I find that hasn't worked after many tries. Even stranger (no bug report as the cause is yet unclear to me), when upgrading the Ultra 1 from kernel-2.4.26-sparc64 to kernel-2.4.27-2-sparc64 the eth0 failed to be detected (by the kernel?) whereas the Ultra 5 (different hardware) works flawlessly with kernel-2.4.27-2-sparc64 (it was natively installed with sarge installer at the beginning and then upgraded to sid). Best regards, Frederic Lehobey signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: unable to boot on the netinst CD
Hi, On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:17PM +0100, Pooly wrote: > > I'm trying to install a Debian 3.1 on an Ultra5. When I boot on the CD > (3.1r0a-sparc-netinst) I end up with a kernel panic with : > Ramdisk : couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 > Cramfs: wrong magic > > I've google a bit, and I've found nothing which works. > Any hints on this ? I do not believe it is enough so solve your problem, but beware of #305230. Best regards, Frederic Lehobey signature.asc Description: Digital signature
