Re: Ressurecting an IPX

" Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:29:39 +1100 (EST)
" From: Andre van Eyssen <[email protected]>
" 
" 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.

i ran various solarii from 4.1.4 to 2.6 on my sparc2.

" > 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.

obp.  early versions are limited to root within the 1st 1g on the hd;
later to 2g.  craig dewick at www.sunshack.org used to have obp images
for many older suns, but i can't find that pg now..

my ss2 had a pair of 4g; / was the 1st partition, 1g.  they were
seagate hawks [st15230n]; i chose them b/c they matched the power
consumption of the sun0424 [st1480n] originally offered with the ss2.
ran them for 10 years 24x7.

with a little clever work one could make an sca drive cable that
plugged into the mb scsi and power jacks... i don't think there's room
to piggyback an adapter on the original cables.
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