[rescue] Sol9 on old x86

Francois Dion fdion at atriumwindows.com
Wed Sep 22 08:19:06 CDT 2004


Sebastian Jaenicke wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:00:49AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
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>>Am I imagining things, or does Solaris 9 scream on old SMP x86
>>hardware (once you get through the travails of installing it)?
>>
>>I loaded up an old Intel "server" board with 2 PII-400s and was very
>>pleasantly surprised.
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>
>Anyone managed to use a Mylex (ExtremeRAID 1100) controller with
>Solaris 9 or later? I have the Sol7/x86 drivers, but didn't have
>any sucess with them.
>
>Too bad there aren't any Mylex drivers for Solaris/sparc.. :-(
>
>- Sebastian
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>
I believe Solaris 8 x86 was the last to have those included. I never 
could get my old Mylex controller going under Sol9, so I swapped it with 
an Adaptec.

Francois



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