29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
10:02 p.m.
answers are interspersed to reply to different subjects. don't
know if that is correct or not according to other thread, but I
did trim out some I didn't reply to.
if this is too much Sun for the list, I'm available offline for sun
help too, worked for them and I like solaris, especially with $25
U5's on the market these days. (400+mhz no less)
jim
Don Y wrote:
only problem on IDE, U1 is SCSI. also when U1 came out it was rare to
have anything but raid with capacity over 4 gb / spindel, and when it was
superceded, SCSI was still only up to maybe 18gb. We used one at
Peer Protocols for Raid test suite development, and it was really fast
compared to the SS2's that I had dredged up to see if we wanted to
spend the $$ for a U1. Now my U5's and 10 are blindingly fast to
the point I dont care anymore.
2 120gb drives will fit on the U5 or U10 if need be. why use tape anymore.
I do backups even disk to disk with cpio anyway, then slice and dice and
use par2 to create check / ecc sets. way better than tape, sad to say
jim stephens wrote:
actually reduces the problem of finding enough capacity to keep 100gb of
solaris software I have to a single drive / machine now, instead of apile of
cd's, tapes, and hard to find SCSI drives. dont care about performance if
I only get 9gb / drive
Don Y wrote:
Ah, I forgot that the U10 is IDE. <shrug>
I just inherited a U10 (400+?). I was planning
on installing 8.
Is it wiser to move to something else? (I need 8 for Jaluna
cross-development but can keep that on my U1 if need be)
Solaris 8 is a bit weird about installing IDE drives with the bigdisk
capacity command. I had to do
some finagleing with the format process to get anything
bigger than 8gb to be created.
Ouch! I have an 18G in the U1 currently and don't recall any problems
getting it set up. Though I don't think any partition is larger than
8G on that machine.
I am running 9
with a 120gb (130 is the magic spot where the disk size
commands break).
Ah, that won't be a problem for me. I dont like putting big drives
in any single machine. Level 0 backups just take too damn long
(even on a DLT). And, since I only *work* on a little stuff at
a time, I only need a few GB of sandbox to play in.