A small conglomerate of E450/Solaris 10 Questions!

To whom it shall concern or can just help out:
Solaris 10 Questions
If I wish to run an iSCSI target under Solaris 10, will GA do it or do I need the Express verison of Solaris 10 (for an E450, SPARC)?
If the GA version of Solaris 10 supports iSCSI targets, how capable is it to socialize that with ZFS in combination?
Can Solaris 10 (for SPARC) support any IDE PCI cards on the E450?
Can Solaris 10 (for SPARC) support any USB PCI cards on the E450?
Can Solaris 10 (for SPARC) support any FireWire (1394) PCI cards on the E450?
Other than Solaris Express being more experimental than the GA version, how problematic is it to run Express vice the GA in terms of daily reliability?
Taking a presumptive position that Solaris 10 Express or GA allows for an iSCSI target capability (with or without ZFS inclusive thereto) has anyone attempted to connect to such an alleged Solaris iSCSI target successfully from MacOS using this initiator:
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?t=more&pi=11
E450 Questions
What DVD drives are support on the SCSI bus for an E450 to boot from for the purposes of asserting a DVD based Solaris 10 installation?
I am also looking for any of the following hardware (if you have it at a good price, do contact me offline at 310-358-0202, or [email protected]):
(a) DVD Drives
(b) Backplane hardware and cables requisite to increase the amount of DASD that can be installed in an E450 from 4 to 12 or 20
(c) RAM
(d) Processors
(e) Multi-port Ethernet cards
Thanks in advance!
Stuart

I have been running solaris 10 on an e450 for ages
and it works fine. I slid the drive out of a
Blade1000 to load the DVD.
Which version (specifically) of Solaris 10 are you running?
GA?
Express?
Which month/year release?
Regarding the DVD:
An interesting solution, though I do not have a Blade1000 handy, so I will continue to look for a compatible DVD player I can use within the e450 for an inexpensive price, unless you are suggesting that a Blade1000 with a DVD is cheaper than a DVD for the e450. Are you suggesting such?
HCL lists are available for the e450.Perhaps you can suggest where I might find them sir?
That truly would be helpful, as I had presumed already that such lists were existent.
>
The backplane can be bought cheap to expand the drive
number.Still investigating the part number, but yes, I'd imagine so. Do you perhaps know the part numer for this item sir?
>
Not sure about any of the iscsi stuff.Too bad, that was an important part of the information I was looking for.
>
Ebay ebay ebay for e450 gear. Once I know the part numbers, ebay will be a great tool for finding the hardware, I agree.
>
On another note, the e450 is a beast weighting in
around 300 pounds fully loaded. Sucks up more power
than NY city on a hot day and can heat a fairly large
building. Not to mention they sound like small
airplanes.
I live in Vegas, electricity is burned out here in outrageous amounts on a daily basis.
Indeed, I am presuming that when they (I have two) are running during the winter, that I will be able to heat my 1895 sq foot house (or at least one deck of it).
I know they are one of the most interesting computer
designs out there but unless you a glutten for slow
processors max 480 mhz I would suggest you buy
something a bit newer. One ultra45 would be better
and hold more drive space and ram.
Years in the computer industry and I will never understand why, when people ask technical questions others feel they are helping to say "replace your hardware", when indeed it is not broken and they are attempting to use it. I have to admit, you are not the first to do such a thing.
I understand you think there is something better, and honestly, I certainly am not inept enough to have not considered that, yet still I posted the query in the instant post asking about the e450.
Consider this: perhaps I was interested in using the e450 and getting the questions answered...nah...why would I want to do that?
If you do like the old hardware and redundancy is not
critical I would suggest getting a blade2000 off of
ebay for around 600 dollars. Still big and beautiful
but far far faster. I use a Blade1000 (wont die) and
have firewire drives plugged into it for more space.And what suggestion would you proffer if the $600 budget is not there?
Using the e450 perhaps? :)
Stuart

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"Anthony Fryer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi Alex, we are also using tuxedo 32-bit on Solaris 64-bit operating
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