Sun 669MB disk & SunOS 4.0.3

[Roy A. McMorran]

I recently took delivery of a shiny new 669 MB SCSI hard disk (Sun EXP or
some such, I believe it's a Micropolis 1588-15 under the hood) and
connected it to my SPARCStation 1.  After having some trouble with the
formatting,  I called Sun for some assistance.  After some diagnosis I was
told that this drive is "not supported" under my rev. (4.0.3) of SunOS (a
fact that my friendly sales rep. didn't mention when I was ordering- he
assumed I had 4.1, an honest mistake I suppose).

So now I am presented with two options: Buy (yes buy) a patch from Sun for
300 bucks, or upgrade my OS (no I don't have support :-() for some larger
number of bucks.  However, funds are not available to  buy this stuff
right now. It seems to me that this patch should be provided free of
charge given the circumstances...

Any comments or suggestions from the net would be welcomed.

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