Largest SCSI disk in an SE/30?

[billynomates]

Well, the sights and sounds of an imminent hard drive failure are once again blessing my SE/30. :'(

A/UX is chucking up read/write errors, which apparently are 'recovered', but I would prefer they weren't there.

What's the largest SCSI disk I can put in an SE/30; this one is a 1GB device from an old SGI Indy if I recall. I can't seem to find any of those around.

Can I install a 2.1GB / 4GB / 9GB ? And partition appropriately? These sizes seem to be a lot easier to come by.

I think I read somewhere that there's a restriction on the boot partition size... Anyone know what it is?

Thanks.

 

[Strimkind]

IIRC The HFS is limited to 1GB partitions before 7.5.3 and 2GB after.

 

[Scott Baret]

2GB is your limit under System 6 or 7. You can use larger partitions on the later versions.

 

[johnklos]

To answer your question directly, you can use drives up to two terabytes. For A/UX, there are practical limits to the numbers and sizes of the partitions which make anything more than a few dozen gigabytes unnecessary, but the point is you can use just about any size drive if you're willing to not care about wasted space.

As far as the boot partition is concerned, I saw this in the A/UX FAQ:

Take care that you don't use too large a disk, however. The fsck in A/UX Startup that checks the root filesystem cannot scan a partition larger than 2GB. A/UX's own fsck can check larger partitions just fine.

That is available here:

http://christtrek.dyndns.org:8000/doc/aux/faq.html