Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 15:54:47
On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:19 PM, DataZap wrote:
> This is very interesting. I did not know that I could use 3 party ide
> cards. In my sparc station 20, I could not make a larger SCA drive fit
> into the slot where the SCA drives go, so I used an SCA to SCSI
> adaptor
> and put it into the cdrom slot.
>
> It sounds to me like what you described is reliable. I would really
> like
> to have a 1U (or at the most 2U) system because it has to be
> colocated and
> it would save me alot of money. Would any of the systems that
> support IDE
> be this size?
The Netra X1 and V100 machines are both 1U and take two IDE
drives. They're limited to 120GB, though. The Netra T1-105 is a
much more "grown up" machine (SCSI, big L2 caches, etc) but no IDE.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007