[rescue] Sol9 on old x86

Geoff Koehler koehler at shaw.ca
Wed Sep 22 09:31:05 CDT 2004


Hi All,

Well, I have a mylex DAC960 in an old dual PP200, my mail server.  It
runs Sol. 9 x86 no problem and the set-up was a snap.  It found the raid
card with no trouble.  Im typing on it now.

Cheers,
	Geoff

Geoff Koehler
Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Home of the SART Observatory
http://207.195.94.13/sart


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Francois Dion wrote:

> Sebastian Jaenicke wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:00:49AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> 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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