Month: July 2006
New low-end Sun x64 servers soon?
A recent update to Sun’s entry-level server warranty matrix lists two new mystery servers – The X2100 M2 and the X2200 M2. I’ll speculate here… I bet that the X2100 M2 is an updated X2100 with iLOM rather than the underwhelming SMDC option card. I can’t think of what the Read More …
Making OpenSolaris into a storage appliance OS
With Sun’s recent release of their X4500 “Thumper” server which can be decked-out with up to 48 500GB SATA2 hard drives and two dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs and comes with quad gigabit ethernet, a new albeit currently infantile era of flexible storage platform has been born. Combined with the storage Read More …
Disabling Solaris kernel modules in GRUB
I had a situation today with a Dell PowerEdge 1750 where my attempt to load Solaris 10 06/06 on it failed miserably. Using Jumpstart, I attempted to install the box per the normal routine but this one server kept panicing in the cadp160 driver. This driver is for the Adaptec Read More …
New ambient dub mix is up.
See Mix 04 on my mixes page for details.