[SPARCbook] 12G drive, but only 8G seen

[Ken Hansen]

That's great - my Voyager will be very happy using a spare 4 or 6 gig HD!

Ken

Mike Nicewonger wrote on 6/29/01 1:37 pm:

>Powerbook 1 will sell you just 
>the adapter. Last time I 
>checked it was $177
>
>Mike N
>
>On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, you 
>wrote:
>> Wkere did you get *just* 
>the adapter? I have a 
>Voyager that could use 
>more space,  but not at $400 
>for 6.4 Gig 
>(http://www.powerbook1.co
>m/)
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> Greg wrote:
>> 
>> > > I experienced the 
>same limitation about a year 
>ago.  Evidently, the SCSI->IDE
>> > > converters they use in 
>the SparcBook series were 
>designed before the advent 
>of
>> > > LBA, which is the 
>addressing method that 
>modern IDE drives use that 
>allow them
>> > > to exceed 8GB.  The 
>only way that I know of to 
>get around this problem is
>> > > trying to find a 
>SCSI->IDE converter that is 
>LBA-enabled.  Frustrating, 
>isn't
>> > > it?
>> >
>> > The current versions of 
>the exact same adapters 
>_do_ work for drives
>> > larger than 8GB and, as 
>an added bonus, perform 
>better.
>> >
>> > Once I switched to using 
>the new adapter I was able to 
>growfs the
>> > last UFS partition on my 
>disk to use the added space 
>beyond 8GB.
>> > Did it while the file 
>system was mounted, too.  
>That's good stuff.
>> >
>> > -greg
>> >
>> > 
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