[luau] sun fileserver

Dustin Cross dusty at sandust.com
Wed Jul 24 10:24:01 PDT 2002


Aloha,

If I remember correctly Sparc20 uses SCA SCSI drives.  Those can be found
pretty cheap.  Also Ultra1 and Ultra2 use SCA.

Dusty

> Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on
> the hard drive.  Most suns (with the exception of some of the "Ultra"
> workstation series) use SCSI hard drives.  These are wildly expensive
> (I  just spent $40 on a 4.3GB to play with in my IPX, the IPX isn't
> even  worth that much).
>
> --MonMotha
>
> Jan Daniel Semrau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering, If anybody knows a decent place where I
>> get a cheap (< $100) sun workstations to build a nice and
>> quiet fileserver. My 900Mhz duron is like a starting F-16
>> and terribly oversized for that task
>>
>> Regards, Dan
>
>
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