Ultra 30 (was RE: [rescue] Ultra 5/10/30 value/comments)

[Rodito Buan II]

Hello everybody,

Good news, since most of mentioned mentioned to get a U30 vs U5 or 10, I
decided to get this U30 at ebay. 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2027550168 Wooohoo!!
I can't wait for it to arrive next week or so.

I have a question regarding the U30 cdrom drive. It is possible to
replace the Internal SCSI Cdrom with a SCSI DVD drive? Is there anything
I should consider on purchasing a DVD drive, manufacture maybe?

Thanks for all the info about U30.

Anywho, in regards to the Iris Indigo keyboard/mouse email I sent out a
couple of weeks ago. I found one on ebay -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2026307765 Now, I
should be able to test the two Iris Indigo Elan machines that killed my
2 sets of PS/2 keyboard/mouse :-(

Regards,
Rodito

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of James Lockwood
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:07 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Ultra 5/10/30 value/comments


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> IMO: an Ultra-30 is one of the best workstations going.  Very capable,

> and if you get a Creator version, it has a UPA slot.  I don't kow if 
> and Ultra-10 has one, I'm fairly sure that an Ultra-5 doesn't.  This 
> means that you can run a very nice framebuffer in there.  A U-30 can 
> only

The U30 has two UPA slave slots for Creator/Elite cards, this is one of
the main reasons I got mine.  An Ultra 10 has one.  An Ultra 5 has one
on the motherboard (the same mobo as the U10) but it's obstructed by the
case.

> handle a single proc, but don't hold that against it - if you need 
> dual proc, get an Ultra-60.  It also takes SCA drives which are 
> becoming much

And you can swap a U60 motherboard (aka AXdp) into a U30 case with no
other changes.

-James