[geeks] AOpen makes SPARC notebooks?

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:06:20PM +0000, Gary Goddard wrote:
> Michael Parson wrote:
> 
>> There are a couple of 2.5" IDE->SCSI adapters out there, the
>> better of which support up to 30 gig disks.  
>
> I've got a 40 gig running on my 3GX with no problems, using one of the 
> newer interfaces. The older ones support up to 8 gig if my memory is 

Yeah, I went back and read some older threads on other lists and somoene
mentioned that the newer interface might have a 130Gig limit, which
I guess I forgot the 1 part. =) Right now I've got a dying 12Gig HD
and I've been shopping around for a 30G drive, but now that I've got a
couple of confirmations that larger drives work, I guess I"ll get a 60G
or so drive and get more storage for my money.

> correct. The biggest limiter on a sparcbook 3 to me is memory, though
> i recently bought a dead 3000XT (not serious i think but haven't got
> round to opening it) which had the special 64Mb simms giving my gx a
> much needed 128 :-)

For most of my uses, the 64M isn't that limiting, but I don't run any of
the fancier desktop environments or window managers, nor do I try to use
netscape or mozilla.  For now, I'm using evilwm and dillo, both are nice
and zippy.  When I fire up gaim, it runs slow, but the rest of the box
doesn't seem that negatively affected.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org