Re: Ressurecting an IPX

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Angus Fox (Mac.Com) wrote:

> What OS should I run on it today. No GUI required. Need good disk utils, like rsync, and smb/afp or nfs networking.

Solaris 2.5.1 was pretty good on my old IPX when I was still using it. You 
should be able to find binaries for the usual tools. Or compile them. I 
think it was supported through to Solaris 7.

> Whats the biggest capacity and fastest type of hard disk I can use with 
> it. It has an external drive which boots nicely but needs a new internal 
> drive. Chiefly I want to use it to copy ageing floppy disks onto a 
> network drive (how the mighty fall eh).

IIRC, it'll work with any 50pin SCSI drive _but_ there was some issues 
booting from larger than 2GB. You might want to do some research there.

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