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1. What is the largest drive available that will work
     in a sparc 5 and what is the manufacterer/part #

2.  Are the hard drive cages necessary?

3.  Does Solaris 8 run fine on a sparc5?

Thanks in advance

Chris

Quote:> 1. What is the largest drive available that will work
>      in a sparc 5 and what is the manufacterer/part #

> 2.  Are the hard drive cages necessary?

> 3.  Does Solaris 8 run fine on a sparc5?

> Thanks in advance

> Chris

Hello Chris,

I've just installed Solaris 8 on Sparc 5 on
IBM DDYS-T09170M Ultrastar SCSI 80pin 9.2 GByte disk without big
problems.
But I don't think that solaris 8 will be run fine on a sparc 5
because JAVA installation was VERY slow and during applying patches
cluster CPU load reached 100% !!

Slava.

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Yes, it's running the 32bit solaris kernel

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> Thanks in advance

> Chris

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Well, they are necessary to hold the drive mechanically in place.
If you come up with another idea to hold the drive in place, that's
OK.

Quote:> 3.  Does Solaris 8 run fine on a sparc5?

Define "fine". It supports the hardware, but depending on the CPU
speed (I think SS5's range from 70 to 170 MHz) and memory size
(it can take up to 256 MB, 8 slots which use 8/32 MB sticks)
and the applications you want to run it might feel slow.

hth, mp.
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Quote:>But I don't think that solaris 8 will be run fine on a sparc 5
>because JAVA installation was VERY slow and during applying patches
>cluster CPU load reached 100% !!

Why *shouldn't* the load hit 100%?  The only time that the load should
not reach 100% is when the job isn't CPU-bound.  Patch installation is
mostly CPU bound because it's a very inefficient process that runs lots
of shell scripts and thus uses lots of CPU power.

Java will be slow, of course, but just because you're using Solaris 8
doesn't mean you're planning on using Java very much.

  - Logan