Frank Cusack wrote:
On October 17, 2006 10:59:51 AM -0700 Richard Elling - PAE
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The realities of the hardware world strike again.
Sun does use the Siig SATA chips in some products, Marvell in others,
and NVidia MCPs in others. The difference is in who writes the drivers.
NVidia, for example, has a history of developing their own drivers and
keeping them closed-source. This is their decision and, I speculate,
largely based on their desire to keep the hardware implementation details
from their competitors. If you want NVidia drivers for Solaris, then
please let NVidia know.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Sun sells a hardware product which
their software does not support. The worst part is it is advertised as
working. <http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/specs.xml>
What is your definition of "work"?
NVidia MCPs work with SATA drives in IDE emulation mode under Solaris
(thus I am able to compose this message on an NForce 410)
We are not talking about a 3rd party add-on card, and we are not even
talking about reselling of 3rd party products. Sun badges this as their
own and should support it without customers having to (fruitlessly) ask
the OEM to write a driver. I didn't pay good money to Sun to have to
then turn around and ask another party for support.
BTW, my point about the x2100 was not actually about SATA support, it was
really that Solaris x86 is not bleeding edge, and this hardware is not
bleeding edge. Rather, Solaris x86 simply has poor hardware support.
When it doesn't support Sun's own hardware, now in its SECOND generation,
it seems difficult to claim otherwise.
I think we can all agree that more hardware, drivers, and features would
be a good thing. But the reality is that everything changes continuously.
The merry-go-round never stops, so sometimes you have to jump on.
Incidentally, contrary to your assertions, (Dell|HP|Lenovo) doesn't write
NVidia drivers for MS-Windows either. Similarly, for Linux on the X2100,
you can download the NVidia drivers directly from NVidia or via
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp
-- richard
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