On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 18:42 -0400, Rick Leir wrote: > Hi Tom > Does it have the FibreChannel disk controller? That is what my > sunblade 2000 has ( manufactured in 2002).
Yes, the disks are FibreChannel. Is there a known fix? I won't get a chance to try this for a day or two, but will, and will report the outcome. > > My experience with that ( two years ago) is that the driver has a bug > preventing installation. I discussed this a few years ago. > > At the time, I was able to install OpenBsd, but that's not what I > want. > Good luck > Rick > > On May 16, 2018 1:09:06 PM EDT, Thomas D Dial <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a pet Sun Blade 1000, presently running Solaris 10, for > > which > > Oracle appears to offer no reasonable non-commercial support. > > FreeBSD > > support also appears somewhat moribund, and I would like to try the > > Debian port, which appears to be quite active and making progress > > toward first class status. > > > > The current ports page does not indicate specific support for the > > Blade > > 1000. Is this likely to work on this fairly old, but very well > > built > > and still serviceable equipment? > > > > Are there known issues of which I ought to be aware before > > attempting > > installation? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Tom Dial > > > > > >
