> I replaced the drives in mine, one at a time, with > larger drives > (used). What I didn't know is that the larger > drives, although used > lightly from their SMART hours powered on, had been > pulled > from a NetApp. The custom NetApp firmware I wasn't > crazy about, > although it hasn't been a problem. What was a > nuisance was > the nonstandard sector size. The only answer to that > was to > low-level reformat them using Jörg's "sformat". > Until that was > one, they were utterly unusable.
Okay, well I've seen some used ones on eBay, and a new 146GB (very strange size) Seagate for 180 quid, which does seem rather expensive for a drive of that size, but I might get one anyway. > I do wish I could find a big cheap FC JBOD to hook up > to that HSSDC I am totally unfamiliar with fibre channel technology and terminology, but I guess its just an external fibre channel enclosure. > connector on the back...but I'm starting to think > that something new, > hooked up via FireWire or USB 2.0, would cost less > than a used FC JBOD > and have about twice the storage space. Okay, but am I right in thinking the system only has USB1.1? > Unfortunately last I asked, there > as no support for FireWire 800 (i.e. for it on any > chipset in an add-on card, > since the onboard is strictly 400), and even trying > to use disks over > FireWire 400 hasn't worked well for me, and I've also > seen from others > more problems than praise on that. But USB 2.0 (or > for that matter > FireWire 400) are a bit on the slow side for disks; > tolerable for brief > use with a portable drive, not so much with a > non-portable JBOD. Well, I do have one 400GB external firewire - currently in use as a backup drive for a Linux server, so once I manage to shift the data onto something else, I guess I could use that. I wonder if its possible to use a PCI sata card in there... Regards, Paul ~~~~ This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
