Sun hides any information about compatibility of peripheral devices with SUN
hardware.
The reason is very clear: SUN's price is much more expensive than original
price.
For example when one of my users ordered optional CD-RW drive for Blade 150,
SUN sent Aopen CRW5232 drive. I checked the price via pricegrabber.com and
see:
Aopen CRW5232 from SUN: $295
Aopen CRW5232 from newegg.com: $25

You never find the drive model in SUN's Hardware handbook before you
purchase it.
And when we tried to return this drive, becaused price for this model is too
expensive, SUN replies: SUN cannot accept opened box for return.

I already buy additional disks and memory for SUN computers from 3rd party,
Now you know that Aopen CRFW5232 should work in SUN Blade.

For external DVD-RW drives sun.com/io gives reference to Addonics
SUN-compatible external DVD-RW drives.

Can anybody say which INTERNAL DVD-RW will work in Sun Blade 150, Solaris9?

Thank you
Andrei

>
> Can anybody say which INTERNAL DVD-RW will work in Sun Blade 150, Solaris9?
>
Any IDE CDROM/CDRW/DVDROM/DVDRW drive will work. That's one of
the advantages (pricewise) of the cheap Sun Blades, they don't
require generally expensive (or in the case of DVD writers
impossible to find) SCSI drives.

Steve

Andrei Boulatov wrote:
> Sun hides any information about compatibility of peripheral devices with SUN
> hardware.
> The reason is very clear: SUN's price is much more expensive than original
> price.
> For example when one of my users ordered optional CD-RW drive for Blade 150,
> SUN sent Aopen CRW5232 drive. I checked the price via pricegrabber.com and
> see:
> Aopen CRW5232 from SUN: $295
> Aopen CRW5232 from newegg.com: $25
>
> You never find the drive model in SUN's Hardware handbook before you
> purchase it.
> And when we tried to return this drive, becaused price for this model is too
> expensive, SUN replies: SUN cannot accept opened box for return.
>
> I already buy additional disks and memory for SUN computers from 3rd party,
> Now you know that Aopen CRFW5232 should work in SUN Blade.
>
> For external DVD-RW drives sun.com/io gives reference to Addonics
> SUN-compatible external DVD-RW drives.
>
> Can anybody say which INTERNAL DVD-RW will work in Sun Blade 150, Solaris9?
>
> Thank you
> Andrei
>
>
>


Actually, you could have found this information. The Sun Store is not
supposed to be a source of technical information, rather it is for
pricing (that's why it's called a store).

If you want to know the specifications of the system or its components
then you need to use the system handbook located on
http://sunsolve.sun.com .

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub..._DVD.html#6463

This lists the model #.

Elias

Elias <nospam@charter.net> writes:

> Actually, you could have found this information. The Sun Store is not
> supposed to be a source of technical information, rather it is for
> pricing (that's why it's called a store).

Sun store could be a lot better though. Cross-refs to the technical
data would help (as would significantly lower prices, but that's
another story).

Chris
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