No more IDE support for Sol.10?

A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
from their site recently. Is this true?

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John Burns <> wrote:
> A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
> tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
> deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
> from their site recently. Is this true?

No.

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Daniel

* John Burns:
> A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
> tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
> deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
> from their site recently. Is this true?

You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
servers and workstations?

Benjamin

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> * John Burns:
>> A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
>> tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
>> deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
>> from their site recently. Is this true?
>
> You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
> only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
> servers and workstations?
>

Actually, yes.
This is the same company that once killed of Solaris on the x86 platform :-)


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YTC#1 <> writes:

>Benjamin Gawert wrote:
>> * John Burns:
>>> A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
>>> tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
>>> deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
>>> from their site recently. Is this true?
>>
>> You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
>> only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
>> servers and workstations?
>>

>Actually, yes.
>This is the same company that once killed of Solaris on the x86 platform :-)

Since many current x86 platforms still only have a ATA compliant harddisk
controllers, I'm sure it is not true.

(E.g., the Atom 230 boards have IDE and SATA connectors but the controller
pretends to an ATA controller)

Casper
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Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> YTC#1 <> writes:
>
>> Benjamin Gawert wrote:
>>> * John Burns:
>>>> A friend downloaded the latest Solaris 10 for his Blade 100. When he
>>>> tried to install it there seemed to be no IDE support, he says Sun have
>>>> deleted IDE support and removed a lot of older things like OBP upgrades
>>>> from their site recently. Is this true?
>>> You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
>>> only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
>>> servers and workstations?
>>>
>
>> Actually, yes.
>> This is the same company that once killed of Solaris on the x86 platform :-)
>
> Since many current x86 platforms still only have a ATA compliant harddisk
> controllers, I'm sure it is not true.
>

It was my usual sarcastic humour :-)

> (E.g., the Atom 230 boards have IDE and SATA connectors but the controller
> pretends to an ATA controller)
>



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* YTC#1:

>> You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
>> only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
>> servers and workstations?
>
> Actually, yes.
> This is the same company that once killed of Solaris on the x86 platform
> :-)

Right, at a time when their own Solaris machines were SPARC only and the
x86 port was only a niche within the Solaris world.

Sun might sometimes do something stupid, but they are not *that* stupid ;-)

Benjamin

In article <>,
Benjamin Gawert <> wrote:
>Sun might sometimes do something stupid, but they are not *that* stupid ;-)

Like spending $2B to merge with Stephen DeWitt's Cobalt Networks.

You don't need to worry about Sam Palmisano and company burrying you
when you have such genius MBAs running the company into the ground.

John

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> * YTC#1:
>
>>> You really think Sun would be so stupid to eliminate support for the
>>> only interface that runs optical media in their newer and current
>>> servers and workstations?
>>
>> Actually, yes.
>> This is the same company that once killed of Solaris on the x86
>> platform :-)
>
> Right, at a time when their own Solaris machines were SPARC only and the
> x86 port was only a niche within the Solaris world.

Because no one was listening that x86 was important......

>
> Sun might sometimes do something stupid, but they are not *that* stupid ;-)

Maybe I am tainted, but there are/were some stupid decisions made. And
now Sun no longer exists in its own right (when the EU get their
backsides into gear).


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* YTC#1:

>> Right, at a time when their own Solaris machines were SPARC only and
>> the x86 port was only a niche within the Solaris world.
>
> Because no one was listening that x86 was important......

Sure, since Sun still believed that SPARC is the best thing since sliced
bread.

>> Sun might sometimes do something stupid, but they are not *that*
>> stupid ;-)
>
> Maybe I am tainted, but there are/were some stupid decisions made.

I never said Sun didn't make stupid decisions, in fact, they made quite
a lot. Besides other problems like completely incompetent sales
departments which made customers that have decided to buy turn away to
other vendors.

However, they didn't make their OS deliberately incompatible with all of
their own hardware as the OP suggested. Even Sun wouldn't do that.

Benjamin