[rescue] tape drive with no SCSI

Gregory Leblanc rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Nov 8 01:51:59 CST 2001


On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 21:15, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> There was something wrong with that.  No clue if it's the hardware,
> software, or somewhere between.  IDE has issues, I'll be the first to
> admit it, BUT the issues are not that bad.  The major issues are
> 1.  Rationaly no more than one used disk per chain, 2. insanely short
> chain lengths 3. very high cpu usage. Are there any more that I'm missing?

Yep.  Solaris IDE support blows chunks.  Sun IDE machines are mean to be
netbooted from a real Sun machine, IMHO.  This list -is- still at
sunhelp.org, isn't it? <wink />
	Greg





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