[luau] sun fileserver

Brian Chee chee at hawaii.edu
Wed Jul 24 10:32:01 PDT 2002


Yup...sparc 2's and 5's use the old 50pin scsi-1 interfaces...

/brian chee

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dustin Cross" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] sun fileserver


> 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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