[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Mike Nicewonger]

I'd almost like to have one of those just for the weird factor <grin>

--Mike N
-----Original Message-----
From: James Lockwood <james at foonly.com>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC


>On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> WHY did they do this, then leave the "normal" SS5-ish drive bays
untouched?
>
>No clue.  My first guess is that they eventually intended to redesign the
>case but didn't for cost reasons.
>
>The expense of the drive mounting setup is probably comparable to that of
>the SCA card in the front of the SS5/SS20, so they didn't save anything.
>
>> 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-)
>
>Right, the same box as the Netra NFS 150.  Ugly cyan color on the front of
>a case, kind of looks like a mutant small U450 but with worse styling.
>The LCD panel on the front is useless, and though the 6 drive bays in
>front are hot swappable the system drive isn't (and requires tearing
>almost the entire machine apart to get to).  Inside all of this is a bog
>standard U1/170 motherboard and a SunSwift card, with an external cable to
>connect to the drive bays.
>
>Why they didn't go for a U1E and internally connected disks is beyond me,
>but I did use it to good advantage at one point.  I had a U450 and a U150
>installed 3000 miles away and we needed more space on the 450 (database
>machine) and didn't need the drives on the 150.  No time to get an
>internal disk expansion kit for the 450, so I had the onsite guys cross
>connect the 150's disk cage to the 450's external SCSI chain.
>
>-James
>
>
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