Hard drives for Sun Blade 2500
shmerl
I've got a used Sun Blade 2500. What HDs are compatible with it? Dos it
support only SUN specific hard drives ('Sun's page'
(http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/sunblade2500/) says: up to two
146-GB, 10,000 RPM, Ultra 320 SCSI drives), or some other SCSI HDs
should work there too? If yes, which ones?
(I plan to install OpenSolaris there).
Thanks.
Dave
You can use virtually any non-Sun drives on Sun SCSI-based machines
without any problems, as long as you get them with the right connector.
There are 3 types of connectors used on SCSI drives
* SCA - most common for enterprise type disks
* F-CAL fibre channel, used in Some Suns like the Blade 2000
* 68-pin - not used in any Sun hardware.
I don't know if the Blade 2500, like the Blade 2000 uses fibre channel
(FCAL) SCSI disks. In which case, they are somewhat rarer to find than
the much more common 80-pin SCA connector used on most SCSI drives.
Very old drives of 1.6" in height may or may not fit. I've no idea. I've
used them in some Suns. bit they are too big to fit in others.
As for capacity or speed, I would not be concerned at all. Larger,
faster disks will work, but would not be supported by Sun.
If you read around, you will find people using many non-Sun drives in
Suns without any problems.
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Michael Laajanen
Any SCSI drive with a 80 pin SCA connector will do, below is a 300GB
Hitachi drive added.
bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN146G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 848>
/pci@1d,700000/scsi@4/sd@0,0
1. c0t1d0 <FUJITSU-MAW3300NC-0104-279.40GB>
/pci@1d,700000/scsi@4/sd@1,0
Spe
You can also using a SAS adapter(from LSIlogic) add SAS/SATA drives but
not boot from them I think.
pci 66 MB/PCI3 LSILogic,sas-pci1000,50 (scs+ LSI,1064
okay /pci@1c,600000/LSILogic,sas@2
/michael
Andreas Wacknitz
either my Blade 2000 or 2500. While booting is supported (3041X have OBP
firmwares) it gives PCI bus errors. This seems to be a Solaris problem
as I can boot OpenBSD 4.5 from it in my Blade 2500.
Regards
Andreas
DoN. Nichols
>
> I've got a used Sun Blade 2500. What HDs are compatible with it? Dos it
> support only SUN specific hard drives ('Sun's page'
> (http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/sunblade2500/) says: up to two
> 146-GB, 10,000 RPM, Ultra 320 SCSI drives), or some other SCSI HDs
> should work there too? If yes, which ones?
Pretty much any SCA interface drive should work based on the
"Ultra 320 SCSI" designation. Sun only lists what they have tested the
system to work with. I'm using Sun Blade 2000s and Sun Fire 280Rs with
146 GB FC-AL drives when they say that 72 GB FC-AL drives are the
maximum. Take into account what was available at the time the machines
were being tested.
> (I plan to install OpenSolaris there).
O.K. Not Solaris 10? I thought that OpenSolaris focused on the
x86 and x64 processors, not the UltraSPARC ones in the SB-1000, 2000,
1500, and 2500 systems. You can download Solaris 10 from Sun's site
(after registering) or even buy the DVD set from Sun for $35.00 (Solaris
10 UltraSPARC, Solaris 10 x86/x64, software development (Compilers and
NetBeans IDE), and Software Companion (pre-compiled open source
software). I'm currently typing this on a system installed from the set
in question. It was worth the $35.00 to not have to do that many long
downloads through a T1 (and it is slower than a T1 should do, so I think
that the bandwidth limit is on Sun's end of the connection. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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John D Groenveld
DoN. Nichols <dnic...@d-and-d.com> wrote:
> O.K. Not Solaris 10? I thought that OpenSolaris focused on the
>x86 and x64 processors, not the UltraSPARC ones in the SB-1000, 2000,
>1500, and 2500 systems. You can download Solaris 10 from Sun's site
Sun's OpenSolaris distribution and Nevada (Solaris Express) are
available for both architectures and include some nice new desktop
usability features.
<URL:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/>
Happy hacking,
John
groe...@acm.org
shmerl
DoN. Nichols;1055682 Wrote:
> Not Solaris 10? I thought that OpenSolaris focused on the x86 and x64
> processors, not the UltraSPARC ones
The latest release of OpenSolaris can be already installed on SPARC
architectures (though it's still catching up to x86 ones, for example
there is no OpenSolaris LiveCD yet for SPARC).
DoN. Nichols
Are there any benefits for going OpenSolairs instead of the
official release -- and you don't need access to the source?
Thanks,
shmerl
I like the spirit of open source :)
Mark L Pappin
> Are there any benefits for going OpenSolairs instead of the
> official release -- and you don't need access to the source?
According to the Sun folks at the recent Kernel Conference Australia,
all new development takes place for OpenSolaris, and this is then
periodically merged into Solaris. Thus, if you want to be closer to
the bleeding edge, OS is the way to do it.
mlp
DoN. Nichols
Thanks! Since I would rather *use* my machines than experiment
with them, I think that I'll stick with the Solaris releases. But one
thing I wonder about. The USB interface, even with the SB-1500/2500 USB
2.0 card in the computer, seems to work up to 4 GB CF cards and thumb
drives, and to hang on 8 GB ones, suggesting that it does not support
the proper version of FAT filesystem for the larger ones. Is this also
the case with the OpenSolaris systems? It is a pain having to go to the
Mac Mini to download things from the larger devices, and then transfer
via the net to the systems I really want to work on. :-) This has kept
me from getting a 8 GB CF card for my camera -- assuming that the Nikon
D70 knows how to access the larger cards anyway. :-)
Enjoy,