On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:22:52PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31-Oct-06, at 3:59 PM, Damian Wiest wrote: > > >On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:17:11AM -0700, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: > >>stan wrote: > >>>On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:11:43PM -0700, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: > >>> > >>>>Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>stan wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>>That's actually not a given IFIRK Sun says the RAID on the 2100's > >>>>>>is "Windows only". > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>Why Sun picks that kinda hardware for it's servers, is another > >>>>kinda > >>>>question.... But the controller manufacturers play evil here... > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>>Might be beacuse these machines are about $750US each list. > >>> > >>> > >>What about v65x then ? :) > > > >I don't know if I mentioned this already, but the Intel Gigabit > >Ethernet > >chip on Sun's AMD64 systems isn't even supported under Solaris. > >Windows drivers only. I have heard rumors that a recent build > >of OpenSolaris includes driver support though. > > > >-Damian > > > > That is incorrect. The Intel chipset on the Sun AMD64 servers is > supported under Solaris with the Sun e1000g driver (and the older > ipge driver on SPARC systems that have that same chipset, anyway). > The e1000g adds jumbo frames and a few other features over the ipge > driver. > > Also, the RAID controller configuration is available via the BIOS and > in Solaris as raidctl(1M) > > -Mike
I'll have to talk to one of my co-workers about this. I seem to recall there being a driver available, but that it didn't work properly. Getting OT, but are you using the SUNWintgige package? Are you talking about the Nvidia RAID controller? -Damian
