Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on the hard drive. Most suns (with the exception of some of the Ultra workstation series) use SCSI hard drives. These are wildly expensive (I just spent $40 on a 4.3GB to play with in my IPX, the IPX isn't even worth that

Re: [luau] sun fileserver (source for cheaper components)

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Chee
: MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [luau] sun fileserver Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on the hard drive. Most suns (with the exception of some of the Ultra workstation series) use SCSI hard

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread al plant
Jan Daniel Semrau wrote: Hi, I was wondering, If anybody knows a decent place where I get a cheap ( $100) sun workstations to build a nice and quiet fileserver. My 900Mhz duron is like a starting F-16 and terribly oversized for that task Regards, Dan -

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, If I remember correctly Sparc20 uses SCA SCSI drives. Those can be found pretty cheap. Also Ultra1 and Ultra2 use SCA. Dusty Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on the hard drive. Most suns (with the exception of some of the Ultra workstation series)

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Chee
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [luau] sun fileserver Aloha, If I remember correctly Sparc20 uses SCA SCSI drives. Those can be found pretty cheap. Also Ultra1 and Ultra2 use SCA. Dusty Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot

[luau] sun?fileserver

2002-07-23 Thread Jan Daniel Semrau
Hi, I was wondering, If anybody knows a decent place where I get a cheap ( $100) sun workstations to build a nice and  quiet fileserver. My 900Mhz duron is like a starting F-16  and terribly oversized for that task Regards, Dan - Tomorrow, I'll know more

[luau] Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-23 Thread Warren Togami
What kind of power are you looking for? We may be able to hook you up, proceeds going to Linux for schools hardware. - Original Message - From: Jan Daniel Semrau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: [luau] sun fileserver Hi, I