Kevin wrote:
Hello all,
I'm about out of space on a Sun Netra T1 that has been happily running
OpenBSD for some time. I'd rather keep this server in action and add
space to it, but both internal drive slots are occupied, so that means
the only choice (short of reloading on bigger disks, which for a
variety of reasons I'd rather avoid) is adding external storage.
It seems like the logical choice would be a Direct Attached Storage
box like a D1000 plugged into the external SCSI port or a PCI RAID
card. So:
1.) Is the D1000 supported in 4.1 when attached to a Netra T1 either
via the external SCSI or via a RAID card?
(http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html#hardware doesn't mention it
either way)
2.) Given the various supported RAID cards, is a more generic RAID
enclosure attached to a 3rd party RAID card a better way to go?
3.) Are there better alternatives that I'm just overlooking?
As always, many thanks.
Kevin
Kevin,
I am not sure about the OpenBSD support but, you cannot use the onboard
SCSI port to connect to a D1000. You need an HVD/Differential SCSI card.
These are easy to find, but needed.
James
