Yup...sparc 2's and 5's use the old 50pin scsi-1 interfaces... /brian chee
University of Hawaii ICS Dept Advanced Network Computing Lab 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dustin Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau