I've done exactly that with some old u30s my buddy scraped oot of the
dumpster 6 yrs ago.  I put a pro-mise ide card in one and 3 250gb ide
drives running raid5 (netbsd raidctl).  I had to drill the bracket in
the top a bit to get the 3rd drive in there, but it was a piece of cake.
If you use a pair of mirrored 500gb, it'll be faster and have just as
much space.  It'll not require any drilling either, just bolt to the
slots (not quite to the holes) to hold the bottom drive in place.  The
top drive can go where the cdrom goes and use a regular 5.25"-3.5"
adapter.  Piece of cake.  I never had a pro-blem w/ the machines
overheating.  They've got years of service on them now.

The machine still boots off the scsi drive and so swap is unaffected by
ide operatios.  I'm currently running netbsd 3.1 sparc64.
--
nate

-----Original Message-----
From: port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org
[mailto:port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of DataZap
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:11 PM
To: NetBSD port-sparc64 mailing list
Subject: sparc64 hardware

Hi,

I am looking for server hardware. I would need to put in larger hard
drives. Could someone tell me if there is sparc hardware that is capable
of having 2-250 gig (perferably 500 gig) hard drives?

Thanks,
Al