Collegeaues:
Thanks for all who responded so quickly (and shame on me for getting
the results back to the group!). To summarize:
a) It is definitely possible to use this configuration;
b) Solaris 7 will work, but Solaris 8 and 9 should be easier to
implement;
c) In addition to your basic Sun freeware, there is a commerical
product available from HyCD.
There home link is www.hycd.com, and for Varian users they have
a special
hardware/software bundle at
http://www.hycd.com/html/varian.html;
d) There is a warning from the Varian application that the use of
CD-RW could stop an
acquisition in progress.
I haven't been able to test out any of the ideas yet (end of the
semester activities), but I plan to try during the summer. I am also
pasting the actual comments in order to provide additional information.
If you want to contact one of the people who made a specific comment
below, let me know and I'll forward your email address to that person.
Thanks,
Bill
Solaris 7 and 8 will all work once the drivers are installed
properly...and assuming that the CDRW is a compatible drive. I've done
this on an ultra170E (7) and an ultra10 (8). The U10 has PCI bus and
EIDE which also works with the software. The software you mention has a
list of supported drives (the web site might be a place to go, don't
recall what it is but you can search the www for it).
The process is not exactly for the faint of heart (burning a disk). You
actually have to first create a disk image and then you burn the image
to the disk. Most of us don't want to be bothered with that anymore
(most of us included me in this case and ALL of my non-geeky
colleagues!). I don't recall how I did this stuff...we suck everything
over onto PC/MACS (NFS, WSFTP, FETCH, SAMBA) and do it there. We will
soon do this with a web site (file transfer, I mean). The macs and pcs
really have solaris beat for this kind of stuff.
Solaris 9 has scg and cdrecord as part of the companion software set
(freeware, I think). haven't tried it but I hear that it works fine.
Hi,
You should definitely go to Solaris 8. The cdrecord listed under the sun
freeware seems to lidicate thatversion 1.9 will only work with Solaris8.
Besides the fact that Solaris has a better volume manager. I will be testing
Solaris 9 soon which is even more user friendly. You can download the binaries
from sun for free as long as you have disk space and cdwriter. I made my disks
on my pc using Nero 6. I have used the scsi port on the SunSwift card for
external disks and cdroms so I think the cdwriter will be ok also.
Good Morning Bill,
I am running Solaris 7 on an Ultra/10 and have a Ricoh MP7040SE using the
external SCSI port on the dual SCSI/ethernet PCI card. I bought the package
4 years ago, so I am sure that the folks at HyCD have a different product
line. Their website is: http://www.hycd.com/
Bill-
I can't address this exact configuration, but I have installed a
CDRW, along with cdrecord/scg on an older Sparc10 system (solaris 2.6?)
and I have installed external hard drives on the external SCSI port
on Ultra5 and Ultra10 systems. In all cases, no problems. It is
very convenient for users to burn NMR data directly to CD without
having to FTP to a PC/MAC environment and cope with the renaming
problems that sometimes occur. I have had more than one student come
in with data on a CD that they can't access because somewhere along
the line file names got capitalized or a period added at the end (the fid file becomes FID or fid. or some such).
We use precisely what you are describing. Installation requires the
cdrecord software and we also use mkhybrid so that the produced discs
are Unix/Windows/Mac compatible.
Here is an example of the actual script we use to run the programs:
#!/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/mkhybrid -v -hfs -multi -r -J -P NANUC -V $1 -o
/export/home/CD_Images/cd.raw $1
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord dev=1,1,0 speed=8 -v -eject -data
/export/home/CD_Images/cd.raw
rm -i /export/home/CD_Images/cd.raw
Installation of cdrecord and mkhybrid is system dependent so I can't
give specific instructions.
We use it on a SunBlade 1500 with the dual SCSI/ethernet card.
--
Dr. W. L. Jarrett
Assistant Research Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials
Department of Polymer Science
118 College Drive #10076
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0076
Phone: (601)266-4551
Fax: (601)266-5504
email: William.Jarrett_at_usm.edu
Received on Mon May 10 2004 - 10:03:22 MST