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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

Sorry to appear so useless. I've experience of SCSI CD-writers on my E450,
but no experience of this new-fangled SunFire hardware...
Could I use a USB connected DVD-writer on a SunFire (Solaris9), and if so,
would anyone please be so kind as to give me pointers to reputable devices
and any software needed to drive it. I've previously used K-Par CDCreation
on the E450 but this only supports SCSI devices.

Many thanks,
Andy.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

In article <427a913c$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>,
Andy Lennard <ck_karisma@SCRUB-THIS.hotmail.com> wrote:
>Sorry to appear so useless. I've experience of SCSI CD-writers on my E450,
>but no experience of this new-fangled SunFire hardware...
>Could I use a USB connected DVD-writer on a SunFire (Solaris9), and if so,
>would anyone please be so kind as to give me pointers to reputable devices
>and any software needed to drive it. I've previously used K-Par CDCreation
>on the E450 but this only supports SCSI devices.

No experience with the SunFire, but I'm using an IDE DVD burner
on my Ultra-2 with a card by ACard which converts the IDE to SCSI.

I'm not sure that I would trust USB at the data rates for a DVD
burner, but I may be wrong. Which speed USB does the SunFire have?

Enjoy,
DoN.

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

In article <427a913c$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>,
Andy Lennard <ck_karisma@SCRUB-THIS.hotmail.com> wrote:
>Sorry to appear so useless. I've experience of SCSI CD-writers on my E450,
>but no experience of this new-fangled SunFire hardware...
>Could I use a USB connected DVD-writer on a SunFire (Solaris9), and if so,
>would anyone please be so kind as to give me pointers to reputable devices
>and any software needed to drive it. I've previously used K-Par CDCreation
>on the E450 but this only supports SCSI devices.

AFAIK, Solaris 9 does not support USB-2, so I woulc recommend to switch
to Solaris 10. You get aprox. 10 MB/s altough there is currently no support
for burst transfers. So at least writing DVDs at 4x will work.

If your K-Par CDCreation software did not evolve during the past 5+ years,
just use cdrecord.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

Note that there are a lot of ATAPI<->USB bridges with horrobly broken
firmware. Be careful and test your case for the DVD writer before you use it.

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

It is definitely a case of "caveat emptor" when it comes to hooking up
ANY non SUN provided hardware and expecting it to work at all. See my
post, "usb/firewire/cdr... system panics". I did my homework, bought
from recommended suppliers and got a system panic for my trouble.
Noone from this forum even bothered to reply... which just serves to
emphasize my first point.
I will say that JShilling's cdrecord and friends appear to be the best
(sic) software out there for DVD recording. Bottom line... If you
don't want to waste your time/money, get it from SUN. If not, well...
see my first sentence.

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.solaris.]

On 2005-05-06, Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> AFAIK, Solaris 9 does not support USB-2, [...]

USB-2 support works fine under Solaris 9 for the built-in
USB-2 ports of the Sun Blade 1500.

Andreas.

#6 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:05 PM

Words to the wise, "chas" <ca.meeks@gmail.com> wrote:

>Noone from this forum even bothered to reply... which just serves to
>emphasize my first point.

This is no official sun support forum, and its a newsgroup as well,
btw.

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