Re: Firewire in S10

Hi,

gerryt@ wrote:
Michael Laajanen wrote:

gerryt@ wrote:

Michael Laajanen wrote:

Are there anything being done on S10 and firewire disks?

Yes on Open Solaris as I recall or Solaris Express or both..
I dont see any mention of firewire on 06/06 mu2 but that doesnt
mean there wont be an update.

That sounds promising.
I guess that the driver should then be possible to install by hand from
OpenSolaris on a S10 install?

The driver and dependencies. I recall about 4-5 packages in total
but Im wrong. 3 actually : >
SUNW1394 SUNWsbp2 SUNWscsa1394
mu1 ships version 11.10.0,REV=2005.01.21.15.53 of SUNWscsa1394
I have:
SUNW_PRODVERS=5.11/snv_28
VERSION=11.11,REV=2005.11.17.10.21


I am looking for a secondary storage medium and I don't like USB since
it needs hubs and performance is not that great on S10 currently.

I dunno. I have no complaints about performance on USB.
Difficult to say why you need a hub, the PCI card I bought has 5
ports...

Much easier to stack since the drives usually has a "daisy chain"


Ugh! I should try daisy chaining my two drives off a single port
Sounds horrible : >
I never considered performance for USB seriously - I use USB for
backups and hoarding stuff..


connector and when all slots are occupied and the USB has two USB and
two Firewire I do need a hub.


We dont know which box you intend this for..
E250

The Blade 2000 has FW built in.
But plugging a storage device in with FCS drivers caused a
panic almost instantly. Thats why I looked at Nevada
True.



This is also the reason for having the DVD writer inside since the
server since then I can use the third USB for DVD.


Hmm the Addonics USB PCI I have has 1 internal port for something like
that.
But I use an external burner
Apart from less cables, less PSU and stuff that can be moved/removed is nice :)



Less cables is always good.


Definitely. But its a battle I always end up losing

Me to , but I am still fighting :)

/michael
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