On Jan 29, 2008 11:35 PM, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gregg Levine wrote:
> > Hello!
> > As most of you might surmise from this question I am coming into the
> > Solaris world from the world of Linux. I now have a release version
> > of Solaris 10 running on an Intel box here, he's running Solaris 10
> > dated 3/05. It came also on a crowd of separate CDs so it was easy to
> > install onto a pair of 18G SCSI disks.
>
> Ugh, s10 FCS! That's now a *very* old release. Have you considered
> updating to either a Solaris Express release, or at least a newer
> Update release of Solaris 10? Please? :)
>
> > Now I need to add more storage to the system to do development works,
> > I was given a Sun branded Multi-Pack unit with a connector on its
> > back, the cable to fit it is terminated in a DB25 type connector. The
> > SCSI card I've discovered that fits it is an AVA-1520E one. However
> > the computer is already wearing an AHA-2940UW SCSI card.
>
> If it's a Sun-branded "multipack" then it should have 68pin connectors
> on the back, not a DB25. Are you perhaps thinking of a Centronics-style
> connector? Even if you are, I still think it's actually unlikely that
> you've got a Sun-branded unit. Care to mention a {3}-{4} digit part
> number or a date code from it?
>
> > Would both of these cards safely co-exist in a computer running that
> > particular release? Or am I asking this question and with the right
> > information, but in the wrong place?
>
> I don't believe we've got a driver for the AVA-1520 card, according
> to http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Hardware/SCSIcards the AVA-1520
> is an ISA bus SCSI card too - so given that we removed support for
> the ISA bus some years ago, I reckon you're pushing your luck.
>
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> --
> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
> Sun Microsystems
> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
>
Hello!
Well to be honest the cable for it wasn't handed to me, only the unit
was. As for the numbers on it.... It says S/N:509G2107, and that cable
was from my stores. I suspect it went to "something else entirely" and
was only part of the collection of SCSI stuff that I had already.
And I am inclined to believe you concerning that AVA1520E card, it is
indeed an ISA one, and support for them is waning.
As for release, well I make no apologies because the box in question,
and indeed for my other computer as well, I do not have a DVD drive
installed. The other one, (who is presenting this web page via VNC)
supports my interests in Linux.
I decided to install Solaris 10 using separate CDs, I first used the
express release of 10 that I picked up, I believe from the Sun gang at
one of those <something> on Wall Street events three years ago, and
the box containing the CDs, which are both X86 and SPARC, at event
hosted at the NYC offices of the company. Presumably well after the
product was released, I believe around April of that year.
I do have later releases here of the product but all on DVD and as
such the main computer is the only one with a DVD drive, and he's not
running an OS who is friendly towards other Operating Systems, the
idea of installing it from that drive is currently out of the
question.
Incidentally based on the above S/N could you track down a cable and
make arrangements to have it sent to me? Obviously this is what's
called a reach.
And if you're NYC based I am usually in those offices every time
there's a meeting for the NYC UG for Open Solaris. (Especially
Wednesday night.)
--
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
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