New disk on SPARC 20

Hello,
i would install a new SCSI disk on my Sparc 20, but i'm not sure that the hardware supports a 36GB disk. Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Davide

If you install this disk as the boot disk, make sure the / file system is less than 2gb. The solaris installer will let you make the filesystem bigger, but when you try to boot from it, it will fail.
Otherwise, I would agree with the other poster, it should work, but if you put the drive inside the ss20, heat dissipation will be a big factor. I definately recommend putting the disk in an external enclosure.
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I tried 3 disks like this one and there is various bad blocs or Warnings .
When i use the format command to find some bad blocks the system say the disk is clean.
When I boot the system is stuck to "0X2000" or "0X4000" any idea ?
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I hate replying to old posts, but for posterity sake just in case someone stumbles across this post - The above is not true. The SS20 will handle disks at least as large as 36GB and maybe larger. The problem will be heat and as a general rule, use only the 9GB or smaller drives in theses systems.

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Yes, you were right. The partitions were totally different. Here is what I saw:
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# format
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
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 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0For c1t1d0:
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0       root    wm       0 - 12865       62.43GB    (12866/0/0) 130924416
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2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
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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 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0So then I ran the following:
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fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.Then I rechecked the partition table for c1t1d0:
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0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
4 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0Woo-hoo!! It matches the first disk now! :)
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Make sure to wait until resilver is done before rebooting.
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pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
        continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 0.40% done, 0h58m to go
config:
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        rpool         ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0    ONLINE       0     0     0
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errors: No known data errorsBoo-yah!!! ++Does little dance++
Then, after resilvering completed I ran:
# installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0I think I'm starting to understand this now. I also shutdown the server to the OpenBoot prompt and booted off of the new disk and it worked! Also, my bootup time to login has drastically decreased - I would say it's about half the time it was before I added the mirror disk. So I believe the server is properly reading from both disks simultaneously in order to get better bandwidth. Cool! :)
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