Re: OT: IDE support in Solaris and other Unices

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Alan Dayley wrote:

> I know many on this list have experience with other Unix flavors so this seems
> a good place to ask this question.
>
> Does Solaris and other Unices (Irix, AIX, etc.) support IDE storage devices?
> Another way to ask it would be to ask if the hardware that runs these other
> flavors of Unix provide an IDE controller and therefore support IDE devices.
> I know that Solaris for the x86 supports IDE. What about on other hardware
> like SPARC systems?
>
> I am under the impression that out side of the Intel compatible world, most
> storage hardware is SCSI and IDE is not supported. Is this correct?

Quite a few of the Sparc systems from Sun use IDE drives.




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