[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

[Cory Smelosky]

On 7 Apr 2013, at 21:47, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The lack of a purpose for the box was not a complaint, it was more of a
> reminder that that this is just an exercise in flexing long-dormant grey
> cells.

If you need a purpose, you can always make it in to a terminal server.  Rig up
a bunch of spare boxes to operate as clients.  More flexing doing that. ;)

>
> I'd rather like to avoid SCSI wiring projects, if at all possible - it has
> a very, very skinny SCSI connector and all my experience is with the more
> pedestrian 50 pin SCSI implementations.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Carl R. Friend <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>   On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>> I'm on hiatus until the actual Sun DVD drive arrives later this week - I
>>> opted
>>> to spring $20 for the right part shipped from an eBay vendor, after my
>>> failed
>>> attempt with a spare laptop DVD and my lack of interest in trying any
>>> number
>>> of other laptop drives...
>>>
>>
>>    There is a SCSI port on the back of the system into which, so long
>> as one has the correct cables and connectors, one should be able to
>> boot a SCSI DVD from.  It's c1 (or c2 depending on whether one has the
>> IDE controller connected -- you have to watch that) so you have the
>> full SCSI address space to play with, which can be useful.
>>
>>
>> Of course, once I finish all this I have no real use for the box...
>>>
>>
>>   That's not necessarily the point, is it?  I'd posit that the point
>> is the challenge of conquering something that you haven't yet done.
>> At least for me that's a huge part of it.
>>
>>
>>   Cheers!
>>
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