Re: simple SunBlade 1500 external question
From: Chris Mattern (matternc_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/16/04
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:08:05 -0400
lvirden@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am wondering how to determine what type of devices a machine
> like the sunblade 1500 has. Are there commands to query for this
> sort of info? For instance, I am told that
> on the front of the sunblade 1500, there are a series of interfaces
> for the user. There is , for instance, some sort of cd drive - but
> how could one determine whether it is cd read only, cd rw, dvd read
> only , dvd and one of the writable formats, etc.
I'd read what's embossed on the drive door, myself. Mine says
"Compact Disc" and "DVD ROM", by which I deduce it'll read both
CDs and DVDs, but won't burn anything (why won't Sun ship a
burner in their desktops? It's very irritating).
> There's said to be
> some sort of slot above the cd drive - something smaller than a
> floppy disk. For what kind of media is this intended?
That's for a Sun proprietary Smart Card, as I believe it says
in the 1500 docs. You'll probably never use it.
> Then there are
> several places to plug things in on the bottom - I presume that
> at least one of these is USB - is there a way for software to query
> to see if it is usb 1.1 or 2.0? Are they all usb or is there also
> firewire? Or could they be headphone and microphone jacks?
Up front you get two USB 1.1 ports, a headphone jack, and a microphone
jack. The two integral USB ports in the back intended for your keyboard
and mouse are also 1.1, but it'll ship with a PCI card preinstalled
that has three USB 2.0 and two FireWire ports. You get jacks for
speakers, line in and another jack that goes to the microphone
input. The 1500 also has its own internal speaker, that unlike a
PC speaker actually connects to the sound hardware.
> Is there a way to determine if the machine has a sound card installed?
Every 1500 has sound on the system board.
>
> If software is trying to gather information about the resources available
> to it to use, some ability to query the system seems necessary. While
> some users might be technically savvy enough to be able to answer
> such questions, not all users will be so knowledgable.
1500s only ship in a few configurations, and in all the matters you cite,
they're all configured the same. So if anything's different, it'll
be because you changed it.
--
Christopher Mattern
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