Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
yeah i really wish the HCL was easier to work with, and allowed comments. for instance that HCL entry was updated in 2007 sometime. since then like you've said it could have been better or dropped altogether. some sort of more community oriented aspect might help beef it up some. also making the tools simpler - absolutely no UI for instance. does it really need one to dump out things? :) On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:15 PM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Mar 11, 2009, at 21:59, mike wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: If you know someone who already has the hardware, you can ask them to run the Sun Device Detection Tool: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp It runs under other operating system (Windows, Linux, BSD) AFAIK, so a re-install or reboot isn't necessary to see what it comes up with. doesnt it require java and x11? Yes, it requires Java 1.5+; a GUI is needed, but I don't think X11 is specifically required (X is the GUI on Unix-y systems of course). Java doesn't specifically need X, it simply uses whatever the OS has. Looking at the page a bit more, you can run commands on the system and save the output to a file that can be processed by the tool on another system: Apart from testing the current system on which Sun Device Detection Tool is invoked, you can also test the device data files that are generated from the external systems. To test the external device data files, print the PCI configuration of the external systems to a text file by using the following commands: • prtconf -pv on Solaris OS. • lspci -vv -n on Linux OS. • reg query hklm\system\currentcontrolset\enum\pci /s on Windows OS. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
Looks like I may have slightly answered my question. I found that it uses the server board S5000PSL, which is in the HCL: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/2944.html It's not listed in the OpenSolaris one, only the Solaris one. I would think something this old (dated 2007) would be forward compatible... On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM, mike mike...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage-systems/ssr212mc2/ssr212mc2-overview.htm http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ssr212mc2/index.htm It's hard to use the HAL sometimes. I am trying to locate chipset info but having a hard time... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:55:23 -0700 mike mike...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I may have slightly answered my question. I found that it uses the server board S5000PSL, which is in the HCL: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/2944.html It's not listed in the OpenSolaris one, only the Solaris one. I would think something this old (dated 2007) would be forward compatible... Just because it hasn't been specifically mentioned in the OpenSolaris or SX hcl, doesn't mean that it isn't supported. Neither does it necessarily mean that support was dropped. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
On Mar 11, 2009, at 20:14, mike wrote: http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage-systems/ssr212mc2/ssr212mc2-overview.htm http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ssr212mc2/index.htm It's hard to use the HAL sometimes. I am trying to locate chipset info but having a hard time... If you know someone who already has the hardware, you can ask them to run the Sun Device Detection Tool: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp It runs under other operating system (Windows, Linux, BSD) AFAIK, so a re-install or reboot isn't necessary to see what it comes up with. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
doesnt it require java and x11? On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Mar 11, 2009, at 20:14, mike wrote: http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage-systems/ssr212mc2/ssr212mc2-overview.htm http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ssr212mc2/index.htm It's hard to use the HAL sometimes. I am trying to locate chipset info but having a hard time... If you know someone who already has the hardware, you can ask them to run the Sun Device Detection Tool: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp It runs under other operating system (Windows, Linux, BSD) AFAIK, so a re-install or reboot isn't necessary to see what it comes up with. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Trying to determine if this box will be compatible with Opensolaris or Solaris
On Mar 11, 2009, at 21:59, mike wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: If you know someone who already has the hardware, you can ask them to run the Sun Device Detection Tool: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp It runs under other operating system (Windows, Linux, BSD) AFAIK, so a re-install or reboot isn't necessary to see what it comes up with. doesnt it require java and x11? Yes, it requires Java 1.5+; a GUI is needed, but I don't think X11 is specifically required (X is the GUI on Unix-y systems of course). Java doesn't specifically need X, it simply uses whatever the OS has. Looking at the page a bit more, you can run commands on the system and save the output to a file that can be processed by the tool on another system: Apart from testing the current system on which Sun Device Detection Tool is invoked, you can also test the device data files that are generated from the external systems. To test the external device data files, print the PCI configuration of the external systems to a text file by using the following commands: • prtconf -pv on Solaris OS. • lspci -vv -n on Linux OS. • reg query hklm\system\currentcontrolset\enum\pci /s on Windows OS. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
