[rescue] eSATA or firewire in Solaris Sparc system

[velociraptor]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Brian Deloria <bdeloria at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should just be able to get a dongle that adapts the internal port
> to the external and puts it in a nice pc expansion slot bracket.  This
> isn't much unlike the old serial ports that had ribbon cables from the
> motherboard going out a card slot on the back of the case.  I haven't
> tried one of these but I've seen a number of them pop up here and
> there.  Give it a try I think they're $8 from Meritline.

Also, I believe that the Addonics web site has the port multiplier
cables with the backing plate for the multi-lane connector so you can
just run a single cable to your multi-drive external box.

I'm using an Addonics card that has a Silicon Image chipset in my
Solaris 10 box @ home.

=Nadine=