[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:24:34PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> Closest I can think of is the Sparc 4.  Basically a cheap, stripped down
> Sparc 5 with a pathetic powersupply (didn't even retain p/s state across
> power outages) and a hard drive mounting system that still makes me
> shudder (bolted over the motherboard).  

WHY did they do this, then leave the "normal" SS5-ish drive bays untouched?

> The E150 gets my bet for all time worst design, though.  Fairly reliable,
> just terrible design.

Is this the same design as the Netra NFS machine?  Open it up, and it looks
like its full of black Styrofoam?

First time we got one of these in at ioNET in '96, we almost ripped all of
that stuff out before we realized it was DESIGNED to be in there... 8-)

"Woah, damn, internal padding for shipment..."

Bill

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