[SPARCbook] maximizing my SPARCbook 3GX

[Michael]

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Hello,

On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Michael Parson wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, chase rayfield wrote:
>
>> All the drives 2Gb or larger already have an adapter that should be
>> capable of
>> 8Gb.... I have see a few once in awhile on ebay.
>
> There are at least two different ones out there.  The one I have works
> with larger drives and seems to run about as fast as the SCSI bus will
> let it.  The older ones are the ones that are limited to 8 gigs.
> There
> were discussions about these on this list and the NetBSD/sparc list a
> while back and should be findable in the archives.

Mine's limited to 5MB/s and probably has the 8GB limit as well ( I
never tried a bigger drive than the 6GB one I'm using now so I don't
know but I think it's fairly likely ). It came with a 2GB drive from
Tadpole.
Something worth considering - there are IDE-to-CompactFlash adaptors
out there with the right connectors and shape to use in place of a
2.5" harddisk. If heat and power consumption are issues here you can't
really beat that.

have fun
Michael
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