Multia (was) Re: RE: [SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

Paul Khoury pkhoury3 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 2 06:18:23 CST 2000


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:19:30 -0600, Clay Mellender wrote:

>Oddly enough, Besides the onboard Battery problem, Multia's are a reliable
>little box. I had an uptime of about 7 months on mine (166 mhz 21164 w/64
>Mb) until I upgraded to RedHat 6.1...
> Running 5 Different websites, and ~20 E-mail Accounts. It isnt the fastest
>box in the world, but it keeps chugging along :)
>Stay away from the IDE Drives. Best config I found is use External SCSI and
>put in a decent video card in the PCI Slot, if you have one.

One thing I will say - I bet I could run my Sun 3/75 on the carpet longer than
the Multia horizontal (I accidently did that with my 3/75, and the carpet
was pretty hot!).

Also did the same with the Multia, and had to spray compressed air upside down
on the CPU to get it back up (that hot).









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