[rescue] Re: Biggest Drive usable in SS5?

[Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch]

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak, reeling from the shock, managed on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:21:22AM -0500 to scrawl:

> From: BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak <bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Biggest Drive usable in SS5?
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:11:38 -0500 (EST)
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> >  I have an old SS5, that I got surplus from work, for the price
> >  of 3 loaves of banana bread.  Only has a 1 Gig drive, which is 
> >  pretty sorry for a web/email server. Will ANY 80-pin SCA drive
> >  work in this box, or are there size limitations?
> 
> Good rescue.

Thanks. The price was right, and I'd been itching to have something
other than PeeCee hardware to play with.
> 
> Sounds like the box beside me.  A pair of 1 gig drives is more than
> sufficient if you use NetBSD.  If you want Solaris, you really need
> at least a pair of 2 gig drives.

I put NetBSD on it. It's headless, and lacks flippydisk and CDRom, so
I had to put on my learning shoes and figure out how to:
Set up a serial console, set up a netboot situation with my FreeBSD
box as the server, and install NetBSD over the wire (prev. experience
only with FreeBSD, some Linii and solX86)

Then, for some reason unknown to me now, I decided to go from qmail
and ezmlm to PostFix and Mailman. More learning...more fun.


Now I'm hooked on both NetBSD and Sun equipment. Sigh.
> 
> AFIK, any HALF height sca drive will work.  Full height drives might
> only work in the top connector on the SS5, but you won't be able
> to put the lid on.  That is also a problem on SS4 crates.  One or more
> of the folks on the list have run them lidless, before.....(:+}}...
> There may be some heating problems associated with high-rpm drives,
> if you stick two in, I have heard.
> 
> Actually, running NetBSD, you could make a fine web/email server
> out of it on 1 gig, if you think a little about the fs layout and
> don't get too gaudy with addins.  Build Mozilla the Gorilla first,
> since that requires about 300mb of build space, and then clear the
> build stuff off and do any remaining addins.
> 

I want space for content. I get worried that my MP3 cache here at 
werk will get found :)

1 Gig won't do it.  Plus, I get warning from Mailman that one of it's DB
files is corrupt, so I don't trust the disk I have in it.

> Bob
> 
  And then I reply to the reply:
> 
> Message: 13
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Biggest Drive usable in SS5?
> From: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Date: 30 Aug 2001 08:54:31 -0700
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 


<SNIPPPPP>

> 
> Why would you need mozilla on a web/mail server?  
> 	Greg

 No Mozilla.  No need for Mozilla if there is no X.
 No need for X if there's no framebuffer or monitor.
 This box is strictly headless. SSH for normal operation,
 Null-Modem cable for disaster recovery. (Thankfully 
 not needed recently...fingers crossed.)



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