I have a couple sunfire V210s which are 1U, but they don't run NetBSD.
They have 2 sca slots, so I could put a pair of 144s in them.  I haven't
done so.

My U30 at the colo is almost 4u In height.  I just stuffed it at the
bottom of the rack under everything and it seems not to be taking up too
much space.  But by the time you get it on a shelf and so on, it'll be
4u of space.  :-/

A U2 is maybe a 3u, but I'm not sure where you'd put the IDE drives on
that.  I should look at my U2 and see where I can stick them.  Once SMP
works well on NetBSD, I think it would be really nice to have some big
drives (sata?) in the U2.  I'll ponder Martin's scsi-ide bridge too.
--
nate

-----Original Message-----
From: port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org
[mailto:port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of DataZap
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 3:20 PM
To: port-sparc64@netbsd.org
Subject: RE: sparc64 hardware

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



>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>