[rescue] T5220 update

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello Lionel,

Thanks for sharing the presentation.  FWIW, if you want to follow out the links 
in the presentation, the Wayback Machine is your friend.

Curious to see how you do with SATA drives.  I had bad experiences with the 
T1000 that I had purchased from Mr. Bill, and most of my SAS based equipment has 
stayed that way.  Too cheap to purchase a bunch of SAS drives, I have a lot of 
my data NFS mounted from an OpenIndiana box sharing out several Tb of space.

Jerry


On 10/30/17 12:52 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I found on Google a document from Sun entitled b
T5120 T5220 TTTb
 that
> looks like an binternalb overview PDF of a PPT stack that describes the
> servers in some detail.
>
> Link:
> http://ftp.ocs.ru/sun/Products/Systems/Niagara/PRESENTATIONS/T5120%20and%20T5
> 220%20TTT.pdf
>
> (TTT = Train The Trainer?)
>
> My two big takeaways are:
>
> All memory DIMMs must be the same, and as noted previously only 4x, 8x, or 16x
> configs are supported, and it specifies a max of 64 Gigs
>
> System supports SAS -or- SATA, canbt mix both on same backplane. (Not
> specified, but I suspect the 32 Gig Intel SATA SSD option might have been an
> exception)
>
> Also, I downloaded and burned Solaris 10 u11 GA(2.6 Gigs) and Solaris 11.3
> (0.8 Gigs), apparently the Solaris 11 install relies on an internet connection
> to install other software, including Studio development tools.
>
> Hope to fire up server with two SATA drives, and I apparently have three
> choices for drive configuration: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1.
>
> (On Oraclebs website therebs also a USB Solaris 11 installer, but Ibm
> old-school enough to prefer DVD install media.)
>
> Lionel
>
>> On Oct 29, 2017, at 5:54 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/29/2017 04:56 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> Nice to know that SATA drives were in some manner supported, and as I
>>> understand it, by definition SATA should work anywhere SAS does. I can
> always
>>> use the drives elsewhere if need be.
>>
>>  SATA drives will be fine.  My primary T5220 is populated with 16 1TB
>> WD Red SATA drives; they work great.
>>
>>               -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
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