[SPARCbook] Larger disk on S1

[Ken Hansen]

This may sound dumb, but have you give the machine an OS to boot yet? Your
replacement drive most likely has no OS on it. Have you tried booting
without the new drive (it may be bad)? Can you boot with no hard drive (just
curious)?

I would suggest putting the old drive in, booting, set the openboot prom (or
whatever it is called) to not auto boot into the HD, then try swapping
drives again, with a CD-ROM attached to fdisk/format/ install an OS onto the
machine.

Could this be puking due to Y2K?

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emanuelsson Paer" <Paer.Emanuelsson at kst.siemens.de>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Larger disk on S1


> Does anyone know of any disk size limitations on the S1?
> I replaced the original (IDE) 120 Mb drive with an 800 Mb model,
> but the Sparcbook hangs after HW diag as soon as it tries to
> access the disk.  It's totally dead.  I know the disk is ok.
> The drive light blinks quickly once, so it does read out the
> disk parameters.
>
> I wonder if it's the old ugly 500MB PC BIOS problem that's affecting
> the Sparcbook as well?  The disk has more than 1024 cylinders (~1300).
> Any success stories using a larger disk appreciated.
>
> Pell
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