[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3GX drive or info needed

[Justin H Haynes]

My 3gx works fine with a scsi to cf adapter.  You should be able to find a caddy eventually.  You see them apart on eBay every now and again.  Open BSD is the only modern and still maintained os that will run on it afaik.  I'm very happy with mine.  It doesn't get frequent use but it does get used as a router from time to time our as a network tap.  Also nice for any application where absolute silence is required as there is no fan on processor and with cf there is no hd noise.  However, there is some odd electronic noise when it has a WiFi card or when you move Windows in x Windows.   Not loud though.

Note that you can get 32bpp in x.  You just have to compile it into the openbsd driver.  Check sparc at openbsd archive.

Doesn't answer your question I understand, hopefully this is useful anyhow.

chase rayfield <cusbrar2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I bought a caddyless and driveless 3GX recently. I seems to boot up just fine to the prom and passes diagnostics. I Also bought 2 32Mb sticks to upgrade it to 64Mb ram. I also hope to rebuild the battery pack. Hopefully with significantly better capacity.
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>Does anyone have a drive or caddy? Also if not I may end up making my own makeshift drive out of a powermonster CF to scsi adapter and possibly custom pcb or cable. But, that leaves me wondering what the exact type of connector i need is.
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>it appears similar to SCA-2... I'd need a male connector on the drive. the 3GX manual and powermonster CF adapter manual at least give all the pinouts so it should not be too hard to make an adaptor for it to my sparcbook if I was sure of the physical connector type.
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>If I can get that done I would then need a caddy... perhaps someone could 3d scan thier drive caddy?
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>Chase
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