Samsung 250GB ATA Disks for W1100z

Hi,
I have a W1100z and would like to buy 2 Samsung SP250 IDE Drives.
Will the BIOS detect them correctly and just use them ? Has someone used bigger IDE drives already ?
Sould be easy, plug in new IDE Drives, install Solaris10 and go.
Or am I wrong and did SUN code their Disks ?
Thank you
Kai
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Kai.Fischer

Hello,
strange behaviour on the w1100z:
- using Seagate ST3320620a (320 GB) drive on the IDE controller, the following happens:
-1-> netBSD 'dragonfly' installs on the system and disc combination and runs without problems;
-2-> Solaris 10 6/06 does not install on the 320 GB disc
-3-> could install, boot, run Solaris 10 on an 18 GB SCSI disc, the format command from the running Solaris does not recognize the 320 GB disc (not even the vendor type string) ...
From point one, it can be concluded, that the hardware (IDE controller) is capable, to deal with the 320 GB disc (lba48 bit addressing ...
The Solaris 10 man page claims, that the ATA driver is compliant to ATA / ATAPI-7 specification, so it should support the 320 GB disc.
Never created or used the maintenance partition - as is recommended in the installation handbook, so this might be a reason for the problem - on the other hand, it seems very unlikely, that stuff in a separate (fdisk) partition influences the Solaris system in a different fdisk partition.
Cheers,
Bernhard
Hi,
I have a W1100z and would like to buy 2 Samsung SP250
IDE Drives.
Will the BIOS detect them correctly and just use them
? Has someone used bigger IDE drives already ?
Sould be easy, plug in new IDE Drives, install
Solaris10 and go.
Or am I wrong and did SUN code their Disks ?
Thank you
Kai
Message was edited by:
Kai.Fischer

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