Re: [suse-sparc] HD for SS20

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 01:42:21 PST

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:42:21 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20020116104221.A8304@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] HD for SS20

    On Wed, Jan 16, Till Jaeger wrote:

    > Hi Uli,
    >
    > > ....
    > > Are there any limitations in the GB size of an internal HD?
    >
    > i don't know about any "official" limitations but i have succesfully used 18Gb
    > SCSI Harddisks in SS 2 and SS Voyager. Both are older models
    > as yours. So there yould be no problem.

    I also use 18GB SCA disks in my SS 20.

    > But the old openprom versions cannot boot partionions beyond the 1GB border! So
    > you habe to put your boot partition at the beginning of the disk.

    One reason we use a /boot partition on SuSE Linux. YaST2 will warn if
    the /boot partition is not beyond the 1GB border. 

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