Greetings!
I have just recently received a new Sun hard drive (with a SPUD for
fitting inside my Sun Ultra 30 computer). I have a few concerns, and I do
not know enough about hardware to answer with certainty, so if anyone here
has any tips or suggestions, I would greatly appreciate your input!
It's a Fujitsu Model MAJ3182MC Ultra 160 SCSI/SCA2/LVD drive.
The drive in the Ultra 30 is a 4.2 GB (the new one is a 18.2 GB)
drive. It still works.
Here is what I'd like to do. I'd like to put this disk in, along
with the existing one, and it appears that two drives fit in my system, so
this should be fine.
However, the Solaris 2.8 which I currently have installed is not a
"full" installation. I installed it fully, but there was so little
remaining space, that I wound up removing major portions, all of the
windowing system and associated applications (Netscape), etc.
This isn't really a problem. I have two systems. My main system is
a Linux system, running Fedora Core 4. The Sun system was given to me in
2003, and it has two Network Interface Cards. So, it was rather ideal!
The Sun system is my "router". One of its NICs is attached to a DI604
(router/firewall) and the cable modem, and the other of its NICs is
attached to the single NIC of my Linux system. It is my mail host. I
have patched the sendmail that came with Solaris 2.8, to take care of
CERT's security flaws, etc., and I have placed fetchmail on it, which
checks (once every five minutes) to see whether me or my mother (who lives
with me) has Internet email, and if so, it transfers the email to the
local (Sun) disk and removes it from RoadRunner. (And, the Sun hard drive
is NFS mounted from the Linux system, so running mail on the Linux system
uses the mail file on the Sun hard drive.)
It really doesn't do much else, and it doesn't need to. But, it is
so wonderfully reliable and does what it does so very well! When I go to
a window logged on to it, just now, and type "uptime", it says up 280
days. And, this has been typical. I reboot it maybe once or twice a
year. And, I have never had a problem with it.
But, here is why I wanted a larger hard drive. My Linux system has
been unavailable twice now since 2003. One time I *really needed* to
access the web to check something regarding my work, and I couldn't. The
Sun has access to the Internet, and it was still getting email. It just
didn't have a web browser or anything like that on it; I didn't have
space for it, as I had removed it.
So, here is what I'd like to do. I'd like to handle this in two
phases, the hardware and the software portion. (I'm a LOT more
comfortable with the software portion!) :-)
Okay, the hardware uncertainties I have. I'm going to wind up
reinstalling Solaris 2.8, from scratch, and on this (larger) hard drive.
(I'll just use the 4.2 GB drive that is currently inside the system as
extra storage -- not that I really *need* much extra storage on the Sun
system.) But, I'll be able to install all of Solaris 2.8 again, and have
Netscape, all the windowing and extra utilities again.
Yet, I'll then be wanting to place my current sendmail (which has the
patches) over the one that will be installed from the Solaris 2.8
installation, and my configuration files, so that I can resume operation
of the system as quickly as possible, and have it operating pretty much
exactly as it is now.
(I haven't looked into it yet, but I expect I'll be able to figure
out how to get the sendmail it's running and my customized configuration
[mainly network and sendmail] files off my backup tape and into place.)
I don't yet know the SCSI information on the drive in there. (It may
be ID 0, and it probably has a terminator. I only know enough to be
dangerous, but I think SCSI has to have a terminator on the last SCSI
device.)
How should I set this (new/larger) drive? ID 0? ID 1? Does it
matter? (And, if, in the future, if I should lose the current 4.2 GB
drive, and that should be okay, because I'll want all of Solaris and my
*needed* storage to be on this newer/larger drive, would the situation of
I had been running with two hard disks, and the upper ID had a terminator,
and suddenly I lost one, would I still be able to keep operating
[presuming the one I lost was the smaller 4.2 GB drive, which I'm planning
on going first, as much as you can plan these things, it being much
older]?)
(Hmmm... that was a run-on question, but I hope you get the idea!)
:-)
Because (mainly) of my work situation, I have extremely little home
time right now. I'd like to do this in as little time as possible, yet
make sure I know what to do, and how to handle the possible "oops" things
that may come up.
I'll have to find out how to even determine what the SCSI IDs are,
set I would presume via jumpers, but I can't even see that, at the moment,
with the drive in this SPUD.
If anyone has any experience and/or knowledge about handling these
things, and has time to reply, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Thank you!
Barry
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Barry L. Bond |
http://home.cfl.rr.com/os9barry/
Software Engineer, ITT Industries | (My personal home web page, last
bbondATcfl.rr.com | updated February 17, 2005)
Have a new 18.2 GB Sun hard drive, would like to keep the current 4.2 GB drive in the
Linear Mode
