Very sure. I can run the machine off a Gentoo livecd with no drives in and it sounds great. I considered just running it off a livecd for a while, except that to do anything useful I would need to roll my own.
These are 2GB Seagate Barracuda's, probably from 1998. How do I find the specs, and/or step them down? Preferrably without having to put them back in? :-) Owen On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:42:18PM -0400, Lee Fickenscher wrote: > Are you sure it is the drives making all the noise? > If so, stepping down to 10k RPM drives may help, though if they are > already 10k drives you are pretty much stuck. > > On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Owen Berry wrote: > > >I have a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 sitting under my desk, as a free gift > >from my company due to lack of use. Nothing great, but it has 2 > >network > >cards, dual processor, and 1G memory. Only problem is that it has 2 > >SCSI > >drives that are so noisy that people from across the passage came > >to see > >what was going on the first time I started it up. > > > >Is it possible to get a relatively quiet SCSI drive that wouldn't be a > >noise polluter sitting under my desk? And if so, what should I be > >looking for? I don't need anything large ... just enough to get a > >basic > >Linux or BSD server running. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
