[SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

Why would it "not be too fast"?  Also a second scsi card for a pc (ultra
narrow) is around 50$, which is quite reasonable.  Another possibility is
adding up to 7 (or 15) systems to a scsi chain.  Intresting cabeling, but
it should work.
	Nick

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Garten, David N., CTR, OSD/P&R [mailto:GartenD at pr.osd.mil]
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:01 AM
> > To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> > Subject: RE: [SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?
> > 
> > ELCs are 33MHz.  Boot from anywhere (SCSI, NET).  Compare 
> > with SS2 at 40MHz.
> > No sbus.  Takes 4 16Meg 72 pin parity SIMMs.  2 slow ports 
> > for thingies.
> > Will make noise.  AUI ethernet requires a dongle to hook it 
> > to your 10BT or
> > 10B2.  Make a fair web browser terminal or a cheap xman 
> > terminal or even a
> > Postscript viewer.  Way cheap at flea markets/ham shows/swap 
> > meets.  I got
> > the one I'm looking at out of a dumpster!  Had 64M of 16M parity SIMMs
> > inside, too.  
> 
> Wow, that would be enough RAM to run X on that machine at a reasonable
> speed.  I've got an ELC with a toasted monitor sitting under my desk here
> (not running) waiting for me to take it appart and see what's dead, but
> since the monitors aren't all that great I haven't put much time into it.
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Anybody used SCSI to bridge a cluster?  TFTP boot a set off LINUX and
> > cluster a box full of em?  They are not hot.  Ought to be 
> > able to get a
> > bunch on a single pee-cee PS.  Now you got me thinkin!
> 
> Ya know, I'm pretty sure that Linux has some drivers to run TCP/IP over
> SCSI...  I wonder if you could cluster that way.  It wouldn't be too fast,
> and most of my machines have only 1 SCSI port, so it would be hard to chain
> more than 2 of them together.  Hmm....
> 	Greg
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