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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 13 Jan 1996 16:20:50 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Message-ID: <4d8m52$sv5@sundog.tiac.net>
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Gavin Maltby (gavin@durban.vector.co.za) wrote:
: Hi,
: Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote:
: : In article <4crliv$smk@olympus.nwnet.net>,
: : >It can take a week to get a machine to simply recognize two SCSI
: : >controllers. Nobody expects you to put two into a machine, so nobody
: : >tells you the convolutions needed to do so.
: : You'll have the same problem with PC unices as you do with SUN/DEC/SGI
: : workstations. How do I stick one in my Sparc 10, I've avoided doing it
: : simply because it's a pain? (BTW - I know how, it's almost *exactly*
: : the same procedure as doing it under any of the BSD's)
: Ummm...Sun/Solaris 2: plug it into an SBus slot (switch off first!);
: then 'boot -r' from the boot monitor after connecting devices to it;
: now use it. I've got workstations with 5 controllers and servers
: with several more. Never once deviated from this strategy.
Solaris 2.x: plug it into an SBUS slot, then "boot -r", then watch as
all your devices get reassigned and nothing mounts anymore.
It is only easy if you always put whatever new card your installing as
the last card on the bus. This can be especially confusing with the
sparc 1000 and sparc 2000.
Solaris 2.x has some "ease of use features" that I could do without.
Like the semi-documented list of variables that can be put in /etc/system.
And the ones that aren't supported so that you have to have to hack
changes into the kernel with the debugger.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
http://tencats.rmkhome.com