Comment by linksnapzz

We got the first E15000 outside of Sun when I was at SDSC; engineers from down the street at Towne Centre Drive came by to set it up...It was running Solaris 8 w/ a very specific kernel patch to make it boot; and the driver for the chassis fan control had never been completed, so they were running at 100% once the system powered on. It was like standing next to a Harrier doing a VTOL takeoff.

Also, when the system disk on the boot drawer failed, I discovered that it wan't a standard Sun FCAL or SCA-80 hdd, but a 68-pin scsi drive mounted to what appeared to be a custom-made drive cage that was unlike anything else we had on the floor. It was a real factory prototype.