[rescue] E450 and 4/110

[Earl D. Baugh Jr.]

On May 9, 2007, at 4:41 PM, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:50:50 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Free E450 for Pickup
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> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Aaron Finley wrote:
>
>> Free E450. Zip code 16803.
>
> $ork has three E450s at work in similar configurations, which will
> likely be available for free "real soon now" on a must-pick-up basis.
> They're very nice systems, but I have smaller SPARC systems that run
> rings around them, and these three particular systems only have the
> first disk backplane, so they're especially space-inefficient.
>
> I keep you folks updated, but if you're near 78731, you may want to  
> make
> room for your very own Sun dorm-fridge-sized computer.

Man, if any of these were near Atlanta (where I live) I'd drive and  
pick it up (as long as it was
a BA chassis so I could run the 450's in it...)  I'd love to have a  
Sun like this that I could host in my
garage with the ability to load a bunch of SCSI storage in one box.   
I loved the first E450 I got at a
couple of companies ago....the E220R and E420R just don't have the  
bay's that I'd like (and the
E250 that I had simply bothered me that it had what looked like could  
be oodles of drive bays
and ended up being "spacers"...)

BTW, I'm still looking for some Sun 3/110 boards... I've got some Sun  
3/140 and memory boards
to swap... (figured it's been a while since I asked).   I'm also  
looking for the front skins for a 2/120

I will be doing some trouble shooting on my 2/120 when I finally get  
some time to begin it's restoration
(and will be doing the same on the 3) so be prepared to hear basic  
questions about how to rebuild a power
supply for the 2/120...(after a close inspection of the existing  
backplane, and disassembly and reassembly
...after traveling across country, I want to make sure everything is  
together well, and want to understand
how to take it apart and put it back together again..... isn't that  
the first thing a rescuer does? 8-) )
I'm a CS not EE.... though I do wield a mean soldering iron... but  
have little experience with power
supplies and replacing capacitors in them...(or troubleshooting to  
know if that indeed is the problem...)


Earl