[rescue] Thumpers?

[Francois Dion]

The thumpers came from the Kealia acquisition. Andy Bechtolscheim had
designed media streaming servers and when Sun acquired Kealia,
Bechtolscheim headed the storage solutions, specifically the X4500 which
were heavily based on the Kealia designs.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <xemacs5 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Concerning who built them, I seem to recall that Celestica built the V20z
> and V40z for Sun. The V20z was very closely based on the reference Opteron
> mobo that Celestica had. No idea about the Thumpers however.
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org> wrote:
>
> > The ones I had were all stock Seagate drives, with a Sun logo on the
> > sticker,
> > but stock Seagate firmware as far as I could tell.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Nick B wrote:
> > > By 'special firmware' maybe they mean the TLER (
> > > https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=1478 ) feature?
> > > Nick
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 03:38:44PM +0100, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> > > > > I've always wanted one of these and to load it with SSDs. That's
> > still a
> > > > > few lotto tickets off. It would be a fun FreeNAS box and an awesome
> > home
> > > > > high-end SAN with a 10Gb ethernet card for iSCSI :D
> > > > >
> > > > > I remember someone saying that the drives that go into these needed
> > > > special
> > > > > firmware. Is that true?
> > > >
> > > > I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I repaired the one I had with
> normal
> > > > disks with zero issues.
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> > _______________________________________________
> > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>



-- 
about.me/francois.dion - www.pyptug.org - www.3DFutureTech.info - @f_dion
<http://twitter.com/f_dion>