What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Intel Platform Edition Hardware Support

Feature Description 

SCSI Disk Driver sd Command

The sd SCSI disk target driver, that was formerly supplied only on Solaris SPARC Platform Edition systems, is now used for SCSI disk support and ATAPI CD-ROM support in place of cmdk. The cmdk driver is still available to support non-SCSI hard disks.

Intelligent I/O Framework Support

Intelligent I/O (I2O) is an emerging standard for modular, high-performance I/O subsystems. This feature, which is dependent on I2O-capable hardware, is only available for Solaris (Intel Platform Edition).