>> I just picked up a SPARCarray 1010 (for those of you who don't know, it's
>> a 30 disk rack mount unit which uses wide-se disks but has a FC port
>> on the back.)
>
>do you have any links to info on this box?  i'm not familiar with the model 10
>10 at all, and i can't seem to find anything about it online.

On the sun site it is a SPARCarray 101 (I don't know why they add the extra
0 at the end in the the label.)


>ok, in researching the second answer's availability on ebay i ran across three
>of these things on ebay.  i just looks like a model 112 with the skins taken
>off to me.  interesting.

Take a look at the 101, I know it's old and slow :) but it's hard to 
discount that kind of available disk space :)


>> What I'm wondering is this, what sbus fiber channel cards does NetBSD
>> 1.6 support? (I know it's not out yet, but new drivers aren't being
>> added any more).  I would much rather run NetBSD on this box insted of
>> Sol9.
>
>there is only one card you can use with this box.  it uses FC, but not the FC
>that is currently in use today.  the FC it uses is old and slow, and was made
>by Sun, and is totally proprietary.  (and by slow i mean 25MB/sec per channel)
>
>the card is sun part number 501-2553 (or X1057A in new model numbers) and ther
>e is currently one on ebay for $80, and the seller is a good guy (2050617936)

That was the card that was recommended to me.  I'll check out the sale on
eBay.  I was planning on getting it from MiniComputer Exchance (www.mce.com)
they have them for $150 (a very good dealer of used Sun/SGI equipment,
though they can't compete with the prices of eBay.)


>i do not know if these cards are supported by NetBSD, but if i were to hazzard
>a guess, i would assume they are not.

From the other responces I have seen I would say that is the case.


>if the above statement is true, fear not.  Solaris has come a long way in the
>last couple years, and in particular, Solaris 9 is really rather amazing.  due
>to NetBSD's complete lack of SMP in sparc, i run solaris 9 on a lot of hardwar
>e here (ok, i'm also a solaris admin by trade, so that does influence things a
>bit *G*) and when i talk about a lot of hardware, i only own one ultra machine
>, the rest are all sparc20s.  sol7 was fairly painful on these machines.
> sol8 was tolerable.  sol9 rocks.  hard.

Yah, I don't mind running Sol8/9 (I've got the MySQL server here running 
on a multi-proc Sparc 20 with Sol8) it just means I have to work on some
more special case tools for all of the stuff I like to run here (I'm 
mostly a NetBSD shop)..  Though I did read somewhere about the ports
collection being ported to Solaris :)


>the other thing to note, is that each SPARCstorage Array comes with a built-in
>Veritas VxVM license, so all you need to do is go to ftp.veritas.com and look
>for a downloadable copy of veritas to use to set things up.

Hmm, I didn't know that.  Though I'm a big fan of the Solaris Disk Manager
tools (wich are not part of the standard Sol9 OS insted of being an 
add on as they were in Sol8).  But There are things to be said for 
volume manager.

Thanks for the feedback!

-Sean