[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 10 disk limitation?

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello Jima & Scot ,

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Jima wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>> I am in the midst of -still- trying to perform a full install of
>> Corona...  Whenever I use a 12 GB drive, upon install (after to the
>> "Welcome" dialog"), I get a reboot message.  Using the 8 GB drive the
>> Ultra 10 came with - seems to work fine.  This is a 333Mhz machine (not
>> that I think matters)...
>
>  How are the drives jumpered?  Master/slave, Cable Select?  I honestly
> don't recall if a particular configuration doesn't work, just a pointer.
> I have an 18gb drive (boot/root) and a 100gb drive in my U10, and a 40gb
> drive in my U5, with no problems that I can recollect (but then, the U10's
> been running for *years*).
 	With only one drive it can be ;
 	1 )  With the appropriate cable ,  Cable Select (CS) .
 	2 )  With or without the appropriate cable ,  Master .

 	With a Second drive we have the same setup as the above , only Slave
 	replaces Master .  At least that worked in a U5 I had access to .

>> Some other oddities with the machine...open boot is reporting 256 MB of
>> RAM when its got 384 MB, etc...
>
>  Never seen that before. :-(
 	Only time I have ever seen this is was a stick of memory was bad ,
 	or not seated well , ...

 		Hth ,  JimL
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