I've been using a Plextor 716UF DVD burner with my IBM T43p notebook as I have
a 2nd hard disk in place of the slow DVD-burner provided with the notebook. I
dual
boot Solaris (snv_42a now) from the 2nd disk using System Commander.
I've been installing Nevada using the USB/2 connection on the Plextor but it
also has
a Firewire connection. So I've plugged in an IBM Cardbus Firewire card into
the single
cardbus slot in the machine and it seems to be recognized OK. From scanpci I
get:
pci bus 0x000c cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x104c device 0x8019
Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller
>From prtconf -D I get the following before the drive is powered up:
pci8086,2448, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)
pci1014,56c, instance #0 (driver name: pcic)
pcs, instance #0 (driver name: pcs)
pci104c,100, instance #0 (driver name: hci1394)
After powering the drive, I get:
pci8086,2448, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)
pci1014,56c, instance #0 (driver name: pcic)
pcs, instance #0 (driver name: pcs)
pci104c,100, instance #0 (driver name: hci1394)
unit, instance #0 (driver name: scsa1394)
disk, instance #4 (driver name: sd)
So it looks to me as it is correctly recognized. If I put a Solaris 10 Update 2
DVD (burned on the Plextor using the USB/2 interface), volume management
opens a window and the disk looks OK. However, if I choose the eject function,
it appears not to work. If the Plextor is connected via USB/2, the eject
function
ejects the DVD. Should I expect the eject function to work via Firewire? Is a
firewire interface fully functional in Nevada?
I also have a Lacie dual interface (Firewire and USB/2) portable hard disk
enclosure
with a 60 GB 7200 RPM drive with Fat32 format. I purchased it as some Lacie
dual and triple nterface devices are listed as Solaris Ready for both SPARC and
x86 Solaris on:
http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/lacie.html
The disk and enclosure seems to work fine with Nevada using the USB/2 port.
Should it work correctly with Firewire and Nevada? (It works fine with the
Cardbus
Firewire card and Windows XP and fine with my iMac using Firewire at home.)
Thanks,
Stuart
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