Re: (1-man shop) must buy more disk for blade100; GOOD BRANDS?


David Combs wrote:
> Thanks for those two recent "how to" responses! (Plus the prior ones too!)
> So, I guess thing to do is:
> 1: get EXTERNAL disk
> 2: get USB disk -- I think that's the conclusion (one said ATA,
> one said USB -- does ATA usually imply (on blade) USB?)

Typically the disk is ATA but the interface to your box is USB 2.0 ...
Conversion is transparent

> 3: get usb2 PCI card.

I got mine from Addonics but apparently Belkin works very well too.
What I liked about Addonics was I ordered on line and it arrived
the next DAY in Canada from California. 24 hour turn around.
And the fact they even mention Solaris/SPARC on their website.

> 4: FIRST, though, INSTALL solaris TEN (jan-2006 upcoming release).
> Because the to-soon-be-bought disk will just plain
> install and work better, cleaner, with it?

Definitely

> 5: get BIG disk, eg >= 80gb -- even though there's no way
> to backup (ufsdump) that much ($$$ for fancy-tape) --
> backup via buying another such disk, copying to it.
> partition it so "can't afford to lose" stuff goes
> in smaller partition that CAN reasonably be usfdumped to (smaller) tape.

I suppose. I do not put anything "critical" on my USB drive. Its for
archiving
and gennerall messing about.

A caveat. This is a "removeable media" device. vold may attempt to
format the drive
in a very clumsy 'binary' manner. Also the drive will mount on
/rmdisk/"label name"
with strange ownership/group - nobody as I recall.
Also I had some problems with rmformat but I cant recall what they were
: >

So I turned off vold, used format -e and chose an EFI label type to
make 1 partition.
Otherwise I couldnt use the whole disk for one partition. Then I was
able to newfs
slice 0. I added an appropriate entry to /etc/vfstab. As long as I turn
on the
USB drive first and turn it off last, the USB disk behaves like any
other disk.

So if you want to have a small critical partition do the above. Anyway
just get
the stuff then youll see what bridges you may have to cross.

.

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