[SunRescue] SparcstationIPC

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Get a newer IBM narrow 7200rpm hard disk and you're fine.  Their 10krpm
drives run remarkably cool, their 7200s are just about room temp.  Very
reliable too.
	Nick

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Steve Pacenka wrote:

> > >>Alternatively I could probably get hold of a bigger scsi drive, does
> > >>anyone know what size drive an IPC can support?
> > 
> > Anything that will fit in the cakebox.  The catch is that the / partition
> > must be in the first 2gig of the drive or the machine will not boot from it.
> > If I were to put in a large drive I'd usually make a 2gig / and the rest
> > /usr - minus swap of course.  Although you'll find that people will argue
> > partitioning almost as much as they argue which distro to use. ;-)
> 
> 
> I'm about to do the same thing as Dan (IPC+new HD+Debian) with two IPCs. 
> Couldn't get anywhere trying to boot Linux on a very old IBM RS/6000 40p 
> lacking any OS, so the IBM will donate its 500M + 1G drives to a pair of IPCs. 
>  (Is this a cross species organ transplant? :^) )
> 
> Wouldn't heat be a major limiting factor in the itty-bitty IPC box?
> 
>   REF: http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/ulti_fan_hack/
> 
> -- regards, SP
> 
> 
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