[clue-tech] Sun Sparc Classic SCSI Hardrive

[mikeb]

>--- mikeb <mikeb at wispertel.net> wrote:
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>>Gus,  That  would fit the  bill  I  am  just testing
>> and  getting up  
>>to speed  with  solaris  again.   It has been  a few
>> years worked in 
>>this environment. 
>>Thanks  again
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>>>I think I have a 10G   what size do you want ?
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>>>On Jul 10, 2005, at 12:32 PM, mikeb wrote:
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>>>I am insearch of an Harddisk to get my "old" Sparc
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>>Classic up and  
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>>>running again. Does anyone out there have a disk
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>>that will meet my  
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>>>needs. Or a place that I can find one cheap?
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Mike Benavides
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>Hmm... Just get a SCSI drive that has the right pin
>connection ... even if you put an ultra3 on on an
>ultra2 chain it "should" run but only at the ultra2
>throughput. IE all SCSI devices on a chain will run at
>the lowest throughput. Physically I think spin speeds
>will not vary. 
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>A bigger concern that got me pulling hair out is that
>Solaris 10 x86 seems to have removed drivers for
>hardware RAID controllers perhaps in favor of their
>SVM 
>(Not to be confused with the features of linux
>LVM).... 
>Software RAID. EG my Compaq Smart2 controllers have no
>support under Solaris 10 x86 --> Enterprise RHEAS4.
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>Software RAID exclusively is a strange solution anyway
>for disk performance tuning. It is a topic in itself.
>I kinda wonder whether LVM on linux is an extra
>implementation of software RAID on top of hardware
>RAID as I assume from reading sun docs about their
>implementation. I just want nice filesystem growning.
>But sun seems to do it by striping ontop of striping
>whatever that means. I admit ignorance. I do see
>foolishness that seems to have propogated from the
>beginning of the UFS.... Overhead in UFS slicing....
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>Is there another filesystem that can be used at
>install time with solaris ?
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>I must be missing something :)
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>Not to mention btw that the latest Oracle 10G suite
>seems to be more available on the linux platforms
>anyway....
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>-Mike
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Thanks Mike, I think I may have lent the orginal drive to David Anselmi 
so, I would like to get the box up and running to test Solaris 10 on it 
and but, I only have $50 into the system so it would not be smart to 
spend alot on money to get it up and running. I do appreciate the info.

-m
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