llothar wrote:
> Thats not an excuse.
>
> To write a device driver in the late 90'th that does not work with
> _ALL_ modern ATAPI cdroms is just a failure of the programmers and
> terrible ignorance from Sun. I've never seen such problems with
> anything operating system except Solaris.
>
> And the Sun guys don't do anything against it. Even with modern
> supported IDE controllers you are limited to 120 GB with Solaris 10.
> This sucks, sucks, sucks.

Actually it is not a problem with sparc's but the really crappy PC
hardware. When you cann't put _ANY_modern IDE drive into a PC and
expect it to work is it a problem with the PC? I have had more trouble
trying to buy replacement drives (CD/DVD/hard) for existing Dell/Compaq
PC's than I have had putting a drive into a sparc. The problem is with
the low-price point that suppliers to PC makers have to deal with.
Workstation makers can demand from suppliers a quality drive, while PC
makers demand that drive be supplied at the lowest price. The drives
supplied with my Ultra-10 at least had the components solder to the
board, while the drives supplied with our current crop of PC had IC's
that had OBVIOUS cold solder joints and failed.

"Even with modern supported IDE controllers you are limited to 120 GB
with Solaris 10.
This sucks, sucks, sucks."

I am not sure where this nonsense came from as I am running Solaris on
a pair of 250gb drives in a gateway e-4000. Most of the PC servers
that I run Solaris on all have nearly a terabyte of IDE disk (3 300gb
disks) without problems. Maybe you are referring to the Ultra-10 which
nearly 10 years old and disks with 10gb were considered large beyond
belief. My Ultra-10 came with a 9gb disk and was used with Samba to
serve user space for 10 PC's. My much newer Blade-1000 has an off the
shelf IDE and USB-2 controller that works just fine with __QUALITY__
ATAPI/IDE drives