Hi all,

I have an Ultra 10 thats still useful: it's had a memory and CPU upgrade....
but its still using the old original IDE disk. I do have an extra SATA drive
laying around though. Can you buy a PCI/SATA adapter for it? (i.e. will a
cheap Promise card work?)

Thanks

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:40:46 -0500,
Steele <twcn_cat5@hotmail.com>, in
<4OpMd.2953$lw4.713005@news20.bellglobal.com> wrote:

>+ I have an Ultra 10 thats still useful: it's had a memory and CPU upgrade....
>+ but its still using the old original IDE disk. I do have an extra SATA drive
>+ laying around though. Can you buy a PCI/SATA adapter for it? (i.e. will a
>+ cheap Promise card work?)

I'd laugh, but I think you're being serious. Unless you can find a
Solaris driver for your "cheap Promise card", no, it won't work. Maybe
Adaptec of Symbios has something that you can use?

James
--
Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
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isn't looking good, either.
I am BOFH. Resistance is futile. Your network will be assimilated.

I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:40:46 -0500,
> Steele <twcn_cat5@hotmail.com>, in
> <4OpMd.2953$lw4.713005@news20.bellglobal.com> wrote:
>
>
>>+ I have an Ultra 10 thats still useful: it's had a memory and CPU upgrade....
>>+ but its still using the old original IDE disk. I do have an extra SATA drive
>>+ laying around though. Can you buy a PCI/SATA adapter for it? (i.e. will a
>>+ cheap Promise card work?)
>
>
> I'd laugh, but I think you're being serious. Unless you can find a
> Solaris driver for your "cheap Promise card", no, it won't work. Maybe
> Adaptec of Symbios has something that you can use?
>
> James
a scsi hba will work althought the drives are more expensive !
but will keep cpu happy.
/Jörger

In article <4OpMd.2953$lw4.713005@news20.bellglobal.com>,
Steele <twcn_cat5@hotmail.com> wrote:
>laying around though. Can you buy a PCI/SATA adapter for it? (i.e. will a
>cheap Promise card work?)

I know of no Solaris SPARC drivers for SATA controllers. I suspect that
will change in the coming months as a result of either Sun porting
their SATA work for Solaris x64 to SPARC or as part of an OpenSolaris
project.

John
groenveld@acm.org