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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