The collected works of zmttoxics - Page 3

I think a saw a post where this was related to bad trams or something. Might be worth searching.

You appear to have nothing more then a loaded DL760. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quic ... 3_div.html

You Dad probably meant it was a custom order compaq, and not a specially designed one off compaq.

AH HAHAHA.

That is amazing. I completely forget this thing even existed over just a months time until you revived this thread. Wow. Just goes to show how uneventful the release actually was.

Good lord someone didn't share well with others as a kid. "I want one, give me yours."

Yeah, it is definitely not a T3. Looks older. I went through SunSolve and couldn't find one that matches it though I suspect it is from the SPARCStorage family (the only ones to list a 7 disk version).

Edit: The tech docs for the SPARCStorage 214 RSM seem to line up with those pictured.

Sure, you post here and you wait . Instead of doing part number 2, you have messaged everyone owner on this board with one asking for one. You tell me who is doing it wrong....

Was not related to the bumping, but the hunting down of current owners of crimsons and asking for theirs.

I agree. Though I still consider a blade 100/150 a waste of cash, a blade {1,2}{0,5}00 of any variety can be had for fairly cheap and would be a much better performer.

My Blade 2500 was $150 CDN with 1 cpu, 2 XVR-1200s, 1x36GB drive and 2GB of ram.

I have however in the past managed to get Blade 1500s for $80 a piece for my work (helps that we bought like 30 of them but it happens).

I think SkyWriter did the same thing I did which was buy a new piece of hardware and get the OEM edition of Pro for super cheap ($160?). I don't enjoy windows... I only have 1 windows machine at home so a subscription wouldn't be a very cost effective solution.

It has a sweet feature list. I will definitely be giving it a shot my self! (I have the dev build in a vm but it runs like a dog).

You could try x11vnc, I have had good luck with it for sharing :0 on Solaris. There is an IRIX binary for it, but I am not sure how well it would actually work given IRIX has its own X server...
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/x11vnc ... se_mirror=

They do have wheels though...

Yeah, it does only stream :0. In fact, you have to own :0 to start the program where as most vnc apps start another server on a different display port.

Mashek: I would try it, it may just work.

Rumor has it SFW is on the chopping block. Please send your "I love SFW" emails to [email protected] so that they can be tallied in an attempt to save it.

Woohoo Oracle. You are doing it right !

http://www.sunfreeware.com

PS: FYI: That includes anything under /usr/sfw/.

Not sure on the specs of these machines (check docs.sun.com or sunsolve.sun.com). What I can tell you is that SAS and SATA share a common connector. SAS Controllers are super fancy and work with both SATA and SAS drives, but SATA controllers do not work with SAS drives.

As for the raid contoller part, why wouldn't you use zfs? In terms of administration (believe on this), you are making your life EASY with zfs.

I would like to see your numbers on that. IIRC Sun's recommended config for the x4500 is RAID-Z2.

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/in ... 500_System

Edit: After reading some of the admin guide, I will s/RAID-Z2/any zfs configuration/. There admin docs are all about zfs by the looks of it.

This however does make sense. I have seen many things break because of zfs.

That said, here is the admin guide from docs.sun.com: http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6562-17/index.html It only mentions the use of ZFS... I would see if you can find anything else on there.

Well, I thought for sure Oracle was going to 86 the SunRay, but I was wrong!

They have released the SunRay 3 Plus, and it looks pretty impressive sporting gigabit and dual dvi monitor support. Looks like it was announced in March, so it obviously wasn't big news but SunRay never really is.

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/v ... 61984.html
http://www.sun-rays.org/clients.html#sunray-3-plus

The link is in reference to a bug in a beta build from 2009, that even that article says will be fixed in the next build. ZFS has quirks, it can't be helped, but there are no major causes for concern in the stable releases. As far as most industry specialists are concerned - ZFS is production ready.

The whole "of course its raidz" was the point. You shouldn't buy a thumper unless thats the direction you want to take.

@OP: A better solution would be something like a 3511 storage array (not that model, its old, maybe the new 6140 is worth looking at) and attach it to an x41x0 style server over fibre. That also opens you up to the option of shared storage in the future.

I forget, did you try a new dvd rom?

Sorry, I meant DVD-Rom DRIVE not Disc.

It is just an IDE drive, you can swap it out for the one in your PC and try it. The drive was bad on my PMG4 when I got it too (these systems are getting old if you forgot).

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I think you are mistaken... That may have been the price when it was new, but they typically go from 1k to 5k depending on the configuration these days. There are discreet products like "Flame" that are very large video editing products with lots of add on hardware. The tezro "package" (like this: http://www.rdlx.com/discreet_flame_v9_system_hd.htm ) can be very expensive - because it IS very expensive.

Can't REALLY compare x86 Sun servers to a Tezro setup - different tasks at hand.

A Mac Pro maybe?

Well if you want to go by the Blender Render Benchmark results, it clocks in a round a Quad 2.5 G5 or early Mac Pro (which makes sense, its from that time period).

SGI: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/ ... ender.html
Everyone else: http://www.eofw.org/bench/

But it matters not. The people that have them will tell you its not about benchmarks.

I sold my 2.0 DC with 6GB of ram for $500 last july. I wouldn't spend more then that.

Yeah, I am going to wait until after the initial rush I think... I am still deciding if my current iPhone NEEEDS to be faster.

I make do with both actually. I use tcpdump on the linux boxes and snoop on the solaris boxes. When I need fancy settings for snoop, I just pipe to grep. Not super efficient but it works.

? Did you read wrong? It says .6 -> .10....

Edit: Oohh. You are talking about the Who is 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.6 line? If I am not mistaken, that should be the FQDN or hostname for one of them.

.45 Caliber.

Don't confuse the 210 with the 120. The 210s have the ALOMS you mentioned, the 120s have LOMs (pre ALOM).

I wouldn't be too upset, the e450 is big, big on power, and not all that fast with todays Solaris. I have seen them used as tables though, as well as space heaters.

Isn't it like FN + F7 or something on most pc laptops to switch display modes?

How much for the octane2? I dont really need another system, but if its cheap enough I am in Ottawa...

Edit: Actually, any idea on what you want for any of the sgi or hp machines? There is an HP job opening in ottawa for an HP-UX systems engineer...

Boy is my face red! PM on the way!

*shrug*

I don't think the OS has built in support for it. I think you needed either a hardware raid or 3rd party software.