16 Feb 2011 20:37
17 Feb 2011 13:43
Re: Test message
Craig Dewick <cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au>
2011-02-17 12:43:26 GMT
2011-02-17 12:43:26 GMT
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Dwight D. McKay wrote: > Here we go. Return of the test-message. Craig. -- -- Craig Dewick - Adelaide Australia - Web: http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick" Email: cdewick <at> nos.lios.apana.org.au - SunShack: http://www.sunshack.org Galleries: http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2 - Pantbotof and the Fading Sun at http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo3/sets/72157622209300431/
17 Feb 2011 13:58
Re: Test message
David Díez <diez.david <at> gmail.com>
2011-02-17 12:58:31 GMT
2011-02-17 12:58:31 GMT
Test too :)
Hi from Spain.
David.
2011/2/17 Craig Dewick <cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au>
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Dwight D. McKay wrote:Here we go.
Return of the test-message.
Craig.
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17 Feb 2011 17:32
Re: Test message
Jacek Paweł Serwach <jserwach <at> poczta.internetdsl.pl>
2011-02-17 16:32:01 GMT
2011-02-17 16:32:01 GMT
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:58:31 +0100 David Díez <diez.david <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Test too :) > > Hi from Spain. Poland welcomes You! -- -- Jacek Paweł Serwach <jserwach <at> poczta.internetdsl.pl>
17 Feb 2011 20:59
Re: u2 crashed again last night - can system be moved back to SS20?
Craig Dewick <cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au>
2011-02-17 19:59:45 GMT
2011-02-17 19:59:45 GMT
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> Can a solaris 9 based system be backed-off from the sun4u platform to the >> sun4m platform? I suspect it's not as simple as shifting between sun4u >> models (booting single-user off CD, mount root partition on target HD, blow >> away /dev and /devices, set up /etc/path_to_inst, re-install boot block, >> re-create /dev and /devices, unmount, then reboot off the target HD) since a >> lot more things would be different. > > I think it's really really lots of work. Basically you need to replace > everything which I ended up replacing the the U2 with a nice netra t1-200 system that I was able to acquire. So that saved hassles migrating down to a different platform and got me a nicer piece of kit which takes up less space in the rack. Craig. -- -- Craig Dewick - Adelaide Australia - Web: http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick" Email: cdewick <at> nos.lios.apana.org.au - SunShack: http://www.sunshack.org Galleries: http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2 - Pantbotof and the Fading Sun at http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo3/sets/72157622209300431/
17 Feb 2011 21:04
Re: good sources of 1" 80 pin new SCSI drives
Craig Dewick <cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au>
2011-02-17 20:04:01 GMT
2011-02-17 20:04:01 GMT
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Hessel Keegstra wrote: > Most FCAL drive will work in SB1000/2000 machines, even drives that do > not have SUN firmware. Modern FCAL drives have the fluid bearings you > seek. > Yes that's the best way to go I think for something quiet and reliable. > However, the "cheaper" drives without SUN firmware that are available on > places like eBay and others are usually drives originally shipped for > large SAN arrays (EMC et al) that utilize a non-standard sector size > other then 512 bytes. The non standard sector size make these drives to > show up in OBP but not being recognized via format. To make these drives > work, you need to low-level format the drives and for that a utility > like sformat (version 3.5 is the latest - from 2001) is needed. sformat > comes in source code (just google for sformat-3.5, you need GCC) or can > be retrieved in binary form via www.blastwave.org. A long time ago > sformat was part of the solaris distribution (or was it still called > SunOS , I forgot) but is no longer shipped part of it. Ah I thought it was something like that which was causing some drives to show in OBP but not appear when 'format' is run. > sformat allows for many parameters to be set. In my experience the > "automatic mode" usually works. Low level formatting a 300GB disc takes > a bit of time thoughAh thanks for the tip about that - yes I have done a low-level format on a 146 GB drive a little while ago and that took quite a lot of time. > > I am not aware of old-new stock 50 pin SCSI drives. These older drives > (working ones) are getting rare. As for 50 pin drives bigger then 18GB, > I dot think they exist. The bigger ones are usually 9GB, 18GB drives are > rare and I have never seen any larger one. You can of course use 68pin > adapters and get a modern 68 pin SCSI drive or even use common SCA > drives with an adapter. Yes they are getting rare. I have been lucky to get the odd one or two 9 or 18 gb units which I keep aside for older systems such as my Sparc LX that doesn't have room for installing drivers with adaptors on the back. Craig. -- -- Craig Dewick - Wollombi NSW Australia - Web: http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick" Email: cdewick <at> nos.lios.apana.org.au - SunShack: http://www.sunshack.org Galleries: http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2 - Pantbotof and the Fading Sun at http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo3/sets/72157622209300431/
17 Feb 2011 21:57
Re: good sources of 1" 80 pin new SCSI drives
Sandwich Maker <adh <at> an.bradford.ma.us>
2011-02-17 20:57:33 GMT
2011-02-17 20:57:33 GMT
" From: Craig Dewick <cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au> " " On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Hessel Keegstra wrote: " > " > As for 50 pin drives bigger then 18GB, I dot think they exist. " " Yes they are getting rare. I have been lucky to get the odd one or two 9 " or 18 gb fwiw, the ST336607LC is/was a 36G 50-pin... ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh <at> an.bradford.ma.us and think what none thought
18 Feb 2011 01:14
18 Feb 2011 02:38
Re: Test message
Paul Theodoropoulos <paul <at> anastrophe.com>
2011-02-18 01:38:15 GMT
2011-02-18 01:38:15 GMT
On 2/17/2011 4:14 PM, Nemo wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Dwight D. McKay wrote: >> Here we go. > And hello written on an SB 2500. > _______________________________________________ greetings from rainy san francisco, california. written in thunderbird on a win 7 laptop, sent through my solaris 10 mailserver - in my garage 50 miles from here where i work...sadly, i no longer run any actual sparc servers, though i have stacks of them keeping the living server company. -- -- Paul Theodoropoulos
18 Feb 2011 03:31
Re: good sources of 1" 80 pin new SCSI drives
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks <at> gmail.com>
2011-02-18 02:31:43 GMT
2011-02-18 02:31:43 GMT
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Hessel Keegstra <hessel.keegstra <at> chello.nl> wrote: > However, the "cheaper" drives without SUN firmware that are available on places like eBay and others are usually drives originally shipped for large SAN arrays (EMC et al) that utilize a non-standard sector size other then 512 bytes.... I used to use an Adaptec 1542C ISA SCSI controller to do that to 4GB drives. Dunno if any of the PCI controllers have the right firmware to do that or not, but it's another possible way of reblocking odd drives. -ethan
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