> Umm, I don't think so. dv9k also comes preconfigured > with 2 disks (the one I was being offered 2x160), and > I believe that the bios did support RAID 1 and 0 > across those. > > However, the probability is low, since I think you'd > also run into the issue during linux installaion, > which apparantly you didn't. > > The HW is MCP51... which afaik, is very well > supported and I have Solaris running in another > (desktop) workstation with this chipset right now, > though its 55b developer edition.
Interesting. I was justing reading Sunday's ad on dv9320, which does come with dual hard discs (but not the dv9000 z that I just bought). I suppose not for long we may see terabyte notebooks . :-) This brought up the subject of an area that we have been quite interested in: DeskTop Replacements (DTR). When I visited the homes of my colleagues (attorneys and engineers) in Japan, I never saw a desktop machine lying around. It's always notebooks. I have been witnessing a dramatic trend moving toward this direction in Taiwan, and to a much less, but increasing, extent, in China. As a conservative estimate, there are at least 100 million professionals and college students in the greater China (China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan) and Japan. Not only this represents an attractive market, but the fact that DTRs involve only a very limited hardware variety also makes it easier for an "upstart" desktop OS such as Solaris to invade. Regarding SXDE 55b, as I mentioned in the original post, it works quite well on this dv9000z (except no sound). I suspect that the problem I am having may very likely be related to the 17" widescreen. If I still have problem with build 70, I will try to do a console install, choosing the nv driver (as used in 55b)--if I have a choice, then upgrade to the nVidia driver. I LOVE the 17" widescreen. Not necessarily b/c that it has a bigger screen, but mainly that the keyboard is humanly comfortable. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
