From: Tim Chipman (chipman@ecopiabio.com)
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 10:28:12 EDT
Overdue summary, sigh. Many thanks to those who responded, in no order:
"NoUCE" ; Matt Clausen ; "Fabio".
Suggestions include workarounds (below) but it seems there is no
known/recommended controller which actually lets you do this.
Absurd/insane might be one phrase that comes to mind, but such is life.
Workarounds include,
-"don't get complicated", buy SCSI disks. (on ebay they can be had quite
reasonably it seems?)
-use an external HW Raid Disk Array for IDE drives-to-SCSI-bus. Many 3rd
party solutions exist in this vein and work well.
-use an external USB 2.0 drive cage and then chain the drive(s) on
thus. If the sparc machine lacks onboard USB 2.0, 3rd party USB2
controller cards **do** appear to exist for Sparc platform (apparently
anything based on NEC UPD720101 should work fine).
-In theory, use external firewire drives would be a good workaround,
except -- as far as I can tell -- solaris doesn't yet support "mass
storage devices" on firewire bus. Gee, how interesting.
For the moment, I've given up on the prospect of easily adding
on-hand-spare 200gb IDE drives into the legacy sparc machine in question
as an easy way for inexpensive bulk storage. I'll probably cave in and
buy an old model IDE-to-SCSI raid array
Hope this material is of use to someone, somewhere, sometime. If ever
there is a big update (gasp, working 3rd party PCI IDE controllers that
work on sparc?!? :-) I'll repost another summary at a later time.
--Tim Chipman
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