Subject: Re: 2nd Sparc internal disk
To: None <David.Nelson@BellCow.COM>
From: None <sthaug@nethelp.no>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/07/1998 15:46:28
> 	I'm going to add a second internal disk to a Sparcstation 5.
> I remember reading someplace that Sun didn't recommend putting 
> anything over a 2GB/5400RPM drive in because of heat concerns.  I'm
> currently thinking of putting a 4GB/5400RPM drive in. Anybody
> have any recommendations/cautionary tales?

The IBM DCAS-34330 4 GB disks run nice and cool, and aside from that they
also perform very well. I use several of these myself with FreeBSD. See

	http://www.storage.ibm.com/oem/data/ultra2es.htm

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no