Re: qlogic fibrechannel

2017-09-07 Thread Rick Leir
Kevin, Yes, I think so. Here is what I posted in March: """Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does this firmware matter, and where can I get it? There is something by that name on the qlogic.com

Re: Stretch bootstrap for sparc64 and sparc, optimized for ultrasparc3

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/07/2017 07:05 PM, Tom Turelinckx wrote: Because I want to move forward with upgrading some of those machines to a newer release, and replacing some of the Sun Fire-series hardware with SPARC Enterprise-series hardware, I'm working on bootstrapping Stretch for both sparc64 and sparc,

Stretch bootstrap for sparc64 and sparc, optimized for ultrasparc3

2017-09-07 Thread Tom Turelinckx
Hi, On Thu, Sep 7, 2017, at 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/07/2017 10:30 AM, Tom Turelinckx wrote: >> Not all of those may be necessary anymore, but I've been doing it like >> that since squeeze and up to the current sid on dozens of machines, and >> it works reliably: when

Re: qlogic fibrechannel

2017-09-07 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hi Rick, Is it qla2200? Kind Regards, -Kevin On Sep 7, 2017 2:18 PM, "Rick Leir" wrote: > Hi all > I am still hoping to get my Sun 2000 (vintage 2002) running with Debian. > The problem was the Qlogic fibrechannel disk driver, so perhaps I can add > in a different disk

Re: qlogic fibrechannel

2017-09-07 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Rick Leir wrote: > Hi all > I am still hoping to get my Sun 2000 (vintage 2002) running with Debian. The > problem was the Qlogic fibrechannel disk driver, so perhaps I can add in a > different disk controller temporarily. What economical

Re: qlogic fibrechannel

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/07/2017 02:17 PM, Rick Leir wrote: More Oracle analysis: https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/ Please don't post these things here anymore, those become very annoying. Oracle hasn't made any official statements yet, so any discussion regarding this is pure

Re: qlogic fibrechannel

2017-09-07 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all I am still hoping to get my Sun 2000 (vintage 2002) running with Debian. The problem was the Qlogic fibrechannel disk driver, so perhaps I can add in a different disk controller temporarily. What economical solution would you recommend? Perhaps a USB disk? By the way, OpenBSD installs

Re: mdadm /boot mirror and sun disklabel corruption

2017-09-07 Thread blmink
06.09.2017 20:46, Frank Scheiner пишет: On 09/06/2017 05:21 PM, Fedor Konstantinov wrote: I'm creating mirrored system disk. For example I make partitions on two disks like the following: 1. 500MB for /boot - boot partition 2. 2GB for swap - swap 3. Whole disk - sun's whole disk 4. 31,6GB for /

Re: mdadm /boot mirror and sun disklabel corruption

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Tom! On 09/07/2017 10:30 AM, Tom Turelinckx wrote: Not all of those may be necessary anymore, but I've been doing it like that since squeeze and up to the current sid on dozens of machines, and it works reliably: when the first disk fails, I am able to boot from the second disk. On a

Re: Re: mdadm /boot mirror and sun disklabel corruption

2017-09-07 Thread Tom Turelinckx
Hi Fedor, > For example I make partitions on two disks like the following: > > 1. 500MB for /boot - boot partition > 2. 2GB for swap - swap > 3. Whole disk - sun's whole disk > 4. 31,6GB for / - rest for the root fs > > Then I create metadevices (mirrors) for partitions 1,2 and 4. I'm using a