[SunRescue] Rescued SS10 (OT)

[Anne&DanielGallantadgallant at sympatico.ca]

Would said external Sun CD-ROM work with an IPC?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Rescued SS10


> Subject: [SunRescue] Rescued SS10
>
>
> > I am the proud owner of a Sparcstation 10.  Being new to the Sun
hardware
> > realm I have a few questions.
>
> Cool welcome aboard the Sun train!
>
> >
> > What type of Hard drives can I use in this system?  Is it SCSI-2,
narrow?
> > What kind of external drive cases will work with it?
>
> Pretty much any 50 pin single ended drive. Most externals will work with
the
> right cableing and termination.
>
> >
> > What type of mouse/keyboard? Type 5?
>
> Type 4, 5 or 6 will work.
>
> >
> > What is the quickest/easiest/cheapest add a CD-ROM to the system?
>
> There are some cheap Sun OEM drives around, you will need an external one
> since the SS10 does not support an internal drive. Email me privatly if
you
> want one.
>
> >
> > I want to put a small practice Oracle database on it.  I know it will
> crawl,
> > so maybe more CPUs, RAM.  It has 64Mb and since I will only be
practicing
> > DBA tasks and backup/recovery on it.
>
> I'd put more ram in it for Oracle, otherwise it should be fine. Slow but
> good for learning on.
>
> >
> > I got it solely to gain familiarity in using the Solaris/Oracle thing.
> I've
> > done DBA work for 2 years, and Unix sysadmin for 4 years.
> >
> Cheers,
>
> Mike N
>
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