I have a customer who wants to use a USB external DVD drive to upgrade software a lot of Sunblade 150 workstations. The machines have internal CDROMs but he doesn't want to change all for DVDs. He wants to know if the addonics AEPDVRW888UM is compatible with these machines ie will it work on these machines and is there any gotchas
Hello,
... wants to use a USB external DVD drive to upgrade software a lot of Sunblade 150 workstations.
You can't boot from an USB device on SPARC. At boottime there is no USB massstorage support (only for USB keyboard).
On x86/x64 the required USB support is contained in the BIOS.
I would suggest that you use a network-based installation instead.
Michael
Hello,
Look like he wants to upgrade apps software
this doesn't require the ability to boot from the USB device.
I would recommend to review the [url=http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/]HCL[/url] and/or [url=http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/index.html]Third Party Products & Solutions[/url].
This is a direct link to [url=http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB7.html]USB Storage Subsystems[/url].
An important note from the above page: "If you are forced to use an older version of Solaris, such as Solaris 8 or 9, and are plugging in USB devices other than keyboard and mice, please use the USBA 1.0framework configured for all devices on all ports."
MIchael
