OpenBSD on Sunfire V100 + external USB

I'm contemplating installation of OpenBSD on a Sunfire V100,
using the 
internal 40G IDE drive for the OS and an external USB drive
for storage.  

I would appreciate success or horror stories - preferably
related to my 
topic, but a short zombie story also would be fine.

Regards,

John
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:36:45PM -0800, John Costello
wrote:
> I'm contemplating installation of OpenBSD on a Sunfire
V100, using the 
> internal 40G IDE drive for the OS and an external USB
drive for storage.  
> 
> I would appreciate success or horror stories -
preferably related to my 
> topic, but a short zombie story also would be fine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> ----

The on board USB on V100/V120/X1 is ohci aka USB1, speed
is going to be bad and I doubt openboot can boot off them.

> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:36:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: John Costello <cosindeterminate.net>
> 
> I'm contemplating installation of OpenBSD on a Sunfire
V100, using the 
> internal 40G IDE drive for the OS and an external USB
drive for storage.  
> 
> I would appreciate success or horror stories -
preferably related to my 
> topic, but a short zombie story also would be fine.

ohci0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Acer Labs M5237
USB" rev 0x03: ivec 0x7e4, version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Acer Labs OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered

Don't think you want to put an USB drive off a USB 1.0
controller.

Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:36:45 -0800 (PST)
>> From: John Costello <cosindeterminate.net>
>>
>> I'm contemplating installation of OpenBSD on a
Sunfire V100, using the 
>> internal 40G IDE drive for the OS and an external
USB drive for storage.  
>>
>> I would appreciate success or horror stories -
preferably related to my 
>> topic, but a short zombie story also would be
fine.
>>     
>
> ohci0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Acer Labs M5237
USB" rev 0x03: ivec 0x7e4, version 1.0, legacy support
> usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0
> uhub0: Acer Labs OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>
> Don't think you want to put an USB drive off a USB 1.0
controller.
>
>   
If you need more storage why don't you use the second IDE
channel, you 
can easily
connect another 40GB Seagate to it.  I have two disk plus
the CD-ROM in 
my V100.
Just be aware of boot disk selection, if you have to disk in
the system 
and you install
e.g., Solaris 9, the system will boot from the disk attached
to the 
secondary IDE
channel.  BTW, the V100 has no internal PCI slot(s).

mufurcz