> Hello, > > Currently run Solaris 10 at work (on research ships), > but I'm interested in OpenSolaris, so I've ordered > the starter pack DVDs and also got a Sun Blade 1000 > off eBay to try it on. Its quite an old system, so > I'm just wondering if there are any others here using > Sun Blade 1000 systems? > > Also, it comes with quite a small (by modern > standards) fibre channel hard drive. Is there any > problem with swapping this for one of Seagate's newer > fibre channel drives?
I've got a 2000, which is almost identical (the PROM identifies it as a 1000). 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 done, they were utterly unusable. I do wish I could find a big cheap FC JBOD to hook up to that HSSDC 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. Unfortunately last I asked, there was 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. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
