Subject: Re: Does anyone know what the maximum hard drive
To: Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/14/2002 18:47:25
Andrew Basterfield said:
>My (pizzabox) SS2 came with 2x411Mb full-height Sun harddisks. The much
>newer 2 gig & 4 gig half height drives that I have replaced them with run
>a lot cooler than the Sun originals, they consume less power and have more
>airspace around them because they are smaller, so I consider this an
>improvement. I would agree, however, that the PSU on any sun4c is pretty
>old and the less load you give it and the cooler the box runs the better
>(I will be moving some disks out into 411s when I find some at the right
>price).
I have an SS2 running NetBSD 4.1.3 that is the Big Brother server for my
network,
It is running off an internal Micropolis 4gig drive and has been at the
job since late 1999. Longest uptime 200+ days.
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Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com www.rmkhome.com