Hi Steven,

--- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, "Steven Levine"
 wrote:
>
> In , on
> 03/21/07
>    at 12:52 AM, "Mike O'Connor"  said:
> 
> >It's a wide SCSI connector - so obviously compatible with eCS,
> 
> The interface will be physically compatible.  The firmware may or
may not
> be compatible.  A bootable device on Solaris sometimes needs special
> firmware.  This may or may not cause problems if the drive is
attached to
> a PC.  Kris automatically assumes it won't work.  I would prefer to
say we
> really don't know.
>
Yep, I guess that in view of the fact that they only mention SPARC
versions, that's a distinct possibility, no mention of Solaris 10
x64/x86 - although the SPARC installation DVD for Solaris 10 is
readable under eCs V2B4 and the Sun Studio 11 Developer Tools DVD is
common to both platforms.
 
> The drive price looks high, but if you take out the cost of the licensed
> software the drive price seems reasonable for SCSI.

Guess so.

> SCSI drives will
> never be price competetive with commodity drives.  They were never
> supposed to be.
Yep
> 
> Steven
> 
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> "Steven Levine"   MR2/ICE 2.67 #10183
eCS/Warp/DIY/14.103a_W4 etc.
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>
Regards,
Mike



 
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