Thanks for all of the help everyone has given me.  As a result, I have
20020317-1.5.3_ALPHA running on a SparcStation 5, with two identical
Seagate 2GB SCA drives, and most importantly, an sbus 10base2 nic in
addition to the onboard le0.

BIG PROBLEM.  The disks are going to burn up if I can't figure out a way
to spin them down and keep them that way except for brief actual use periods.
I used it once for about an hour, and you could poach eggs on those hdds!
Where should I be looking?  Most of the material I have been reading about
APM seems to be for laptops or ata.

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henry nelson