[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

[Jonathan Chapman]

> IDE to Compact flash adaptors work great in the PC World, use many of them. In the Sun world it way more complex. I put weeks into getting a Sun Ultra 5 to work with anything with no luck. The biggest problem I never solved was writing the disk label to the “disk”. The card had to support CHS mode and most don’t. Even ones I found that said they did would not work. They also have to be industrial as the Solaris installer had to see the card a fixed disk. Solved that but the never got past the disk label.

Run a quality SSD on one of the Startech adapters, in that case. I've got one in my Ultra 10 and it works fine -- Startech adapter and an old Intel 330 series SSD, probably 60 GB. Make sure you blow away any previous information on the SSD, since it may confuse the installer. I usually just run the SSD's secure erase mechanism from Linux.

The Ultra 5/10 will probably bottleneck on a CF card anyway.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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