[SunRescue] IDE drives...

[Ken Hansen]

Bill,
    Please a source (and price) for the card? I am half-way to buying
the Educational Ultra 5 we discussed a few days ago...

Thanks,

Ken
n2vip at bellatlantic.net

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:45:00AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > I'm looking at buying an IDE drive to replace a small 4 Gig drive
> > in an Ultra 5 (if it makes a difference, the Ultra 5 is a 270Mhz,
> > one of the first ones).
> > Are there any issues with what Solaris will support?  Can I grab
> > a nice IBM drive?  Any size?  Will me running 2.6 make a difference?
> > thanks for any help you guys can give me on this one...
> > --Kurt
>
> I had a nice 8.4gig Seagate Medalist drive in my u5/270, but if you
> can, find a SYmbios 8751sp card and go scsi.  I did that last night
> in my Ultra 10 and ist AMAZING how much difference it makes.
>
> Bill
>
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