Testing Old Hard Drives 

Totally agree. Everything I've shown is like ~20 years old but feels so ahead of its time.

I remember when those Raptors came out and thinking they were incredible. Never had one unfortunately, cool to hear they're still working!

@@clabretro Just picked up some more Seagate Medalist Pro 9140 ST36530W 6.55 GB's new in bag/box for AU$20.00 each this day. Around US$14.00 I think? Retail? Easy US$750+ each.

Haha glad you liked it, and thanks for subscribing! Definitely more on the way.

This is exactly the information I was looking for, thank you! I'll definitely be hunting down one of those cards, I'd really like to see if there happens to be anything on the drives. Plus it'll be very convenient to have a way to access them other than the V120.

​@@clabretroI have seen that there were drivers for the 2940 cards for Sun, windows, and Linux. I will add that the ultra wide support 160 speed and the lvd ultra wide supported the 320 speed. But you could also connect the them to the slower 50 pin cables with adapter for 40/80 speed transfers. Each drive would need an ID number set. The SCA 80 adapter usually have the jumps for that on them.

Just ordered a AHA-2940u2w and some cables... we'll see how it goes!

Also try Parted Magic Linux on PC to check smart status for those HDD,wipe them with nwipe

thanks!

Sure, I'll get around to making a detailed tutorial video. This is by far the best guide I found, and how I was ultimately able to get it working: www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-configure-a-solaris-10-jumpstart-server-and-client-sparc/

OK, you got a bit further....(ok prompt is the OBP prompt 🙂

Just picked up an hba and converter actually, hopefully will be able to take a look at those drives.

Old Proliant's and dell's support 80 pin sca scsi directly.

Dell 8th gen would be the go.

@@andrewnoonan5786 Unfortunately the HP DL360 G4p doesn't cut it, they only support HDDs certified for HP with the built-in RAID controller, I currently have such an issue, where I have old IBM SCSI U320 HDDs that aren't recognized whatsoever by the server, but they are recognized by an HBA card.

@@rafaelgruber6133 Interesting. Adaptec cards are an option in that situation. I had an ML310 G3 with an Adaptec card that ran Esxi 5.5 many moons ago as my first ever home hypervisor. Note it was a scsi card and not a raid card but it ran with non hp drives perfectly fine. It was using a Pentium D Extreme which had the relevant virtualisation suppprt. I ran it for a year before replacing it with newer hardware.

That's what I'm thinking. Need to do a little more research but it could be possible to get that install back in action.

probably won't work - disksuite keeps it's config is a database on the disks. Multiple copies of this database are made and they need to be in sync. Some of the copies are missing and there are not enough for it to be happy! So they will not allow it to run unless that can be bypassed.

I actually go over the simplest jumpstart configuration I could create in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9BW-mbC7Xag.html

haha I'll bet that 1U V210 makes about as much noise as the V120. The V240 isn't too bad in comparison.

Thank you! I'll save this comment for next time I try messing around with that drive.

Thanks for that pointer on DiskSuite... I'll have to do a little reading there.

ah ha, thanks!

@@clabretro No, it's eff ess see kay...

My favourite, lutefsck

Ha not yet... going to mess around with a name server eventually though.

Oh thanks - I had wondered if it was worth experimenting with that. I'll give it a try next time I'm messing around with this thing.

Excellent! I setup an x86 Solaris 10 VM in proxmox (you could probably use any hypervisor) as my JumpStart server. This is a pretty good guide: web.archive.org/web/20230329091434/www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-configure-a-solaris-10-jumpstart-server-and-client-sparc/ That's the first one I followed, but if I remember correctly you might not have to deal with all the profile stuff or anything (though that full guide should also work just fine). Below is from memory though and it was a long time ago. This is all on the JumpStart VM: 1. Mount the Solaris image you want to serve with the JumpStart server. Make a directory to host the install (/export/install is a typical spot) 2. There are JumpStart utilities in /path/to/image/Solaris_[8/9/10]/Tools. Run "./setup_install_server /export/install" 3. Add the host name you want for the v210 to /etc/hosts. Add a mac address -> hostname mapping to /etc/ethers for the v210. I think you can find the mac address when you boot up the v210 to the OK prompt. 4. Run "./add_install_client sun4u" Anyway that's the basic idea!

@@clabretroI finally got it working! It took a while, a lot of messing around with Proxmox, but it works! Thank you so much! Just wondering, do you have a Discord server or anything like it?

@@clabretro Hang on a minute! You got NEW SCSI drives there pardner? True OLD SCSI is from early 80's through to mid 90's in my book. I have 1GB-9GB SCSI hard drives that I get offered US$1,000 each for and I cannot get enough!!! The most amazing fact is that most of my drives I sell are used. The BNIB ones go for US$3,000+ every day of the week. Have a great week mate.

I wish!

@@clabretro I have HUNDREDS!!!!!!!!! From 40MB-1,000MB. I would have dozens still in static bags from factory and in original boxed lots. All bound for Apple dealers of course back then. Now they are all mine and I'm so old I used to actually use these from the early 80's through mid 90's. Cheers man.

I can't post URLs with help. Try boot -s and then vi /etc/system set md:mirrored_root_flag=1

That's the route I'm gonna go, just ordered an HBA and some cables. There could of course be nothing on them, but I figured it'd be worth trying to check before just blindly formatting them all.

@@clabretro Or did you see my other comment about modifying /etc/system? Maybe try with the one-sided mirror Solaris disk and boot -s and see if / is writable...

@@declanmcardle I'll give that a shot! Really appreciate all the insight here, I'm totally new to all this Solaris stuff!

I was too lazy to set it right haha

I have, probably one of the most interesting machines they made. Exceedingly rare though 😂

Oh yeah definitely. I just like playing around with these older Sun/SPARC machines for fun and to see what they're like. I thought it was cool that Solaris had the equivalent of Linux Live CD behavior.