[rescue] installing bigger HD in Sun SparcEngine AXe

[Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 16:38, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> > Whether someone will take the SATA driver for x86 and compile it for SPARC, 
> > then use the cheap PCI cards that use the same chipset, is an open 
> > question ... it will probably happen now that we have OpenSolaris.
> 
> The IDE drivers for x86 are still encumbered, they only ship in binary form
> so far.

I assume that the SATA and IDE drivers are similar enough that they are in the same binary... eventually I suppose either Sun will un-encumber them or someone else will port a driver from BSD or Linux ...  Imagine 2x300GB drives in an Ultra 5, would make a nice backup machine.

--Patrick