Hi,

Thank you for your email.

This is very interesting. I did not know that I could use 3 party ide
cards. In my sparc station 20, I could not make a larger SCA drive fit
into the slot where the SCA drives go, so I used an SCA to SCSI adaptor
and put it into the cdrom slot.

It sounds to me like what you described is reliable. I would really like
to have a 1U (or at the most 2U) system because it has to be colocated and
it would save me alot of money. Would any of the systems that support IDE
be this size?

Thanks,
Al



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> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Nathan G. Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:18:31 -0600
> > From: Nathan G. Mitchell <nmitchel@nexthop.com>
> > To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>,
> >      NetBSD port-sparc64 mailing list <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
> > Subject: RE: sparc64 hardware
> >
> > 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
> >
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