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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:10 am Post subject: Ultra 10 - Usless IDE workaround? |
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I have been getting really annoyed with the shoddy performance of the IDE disk(s) in my U10, while I was getting annoyed with it I was wondering about work arounds (Sun SCSI cards seem to be expensive on ebay in the UK).
I have an old Compact flash card (8mb and also a 64mb) and one of those IDE converters, what if I were to put the /boot (and therefore the kernel etc) onto the compact flash - could I then use any linux supported IDE controller?
Or should I give in and part with some cash for the SCSI option.
Sadly I have replaced my home server with an Intel box already - but to be fair this was more to do with running some goodies that are not avilable on Sparc hardware yet. (hardened sources, pax and dm-crypt) before anyone says it yes I know I probably could do this by hand but I would rather wait untill the 2.6 tree is sparc stable before I go and bust it all on my own. (and I just dare somone to tell me to run debian instead!!) _________________ Toady
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3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you can stick one of those CF<->IDE adapters to have the kernel there and use a regular scsi card to go on booting (as in root filesystem).
I actually did this back when i didn't have my SYM and used an Adaptec for that matter. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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NewBlackDak Guru
Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Utah County, UT
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:11 am Post subject: |
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I'm doing that something similar with my U5. We had several RAID boxes loaded with 7x18.1GB disks laying around. I set it to RAID5 with 2 online spares, popped in an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W, and the liveCD recognized it the first time. I use the internal 10GB IDE drive for /boot and /home. The array is swap, /var, and /. It's our webserver now. I look at it once a week to make sure we haven't dropped any disks! _________________ Gentoo systems.
X2 4200+@2.6 - Athy
X2 3600+ - Myth
UltraSparc5 440 - sparcy |
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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks guys... I'll give it a go as soon as I can find my CF <-> IDE adapter.. _________________ Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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