Re: Ressurecting an IPX

" From: der Mouse <[email protected]>
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" > Thanks to the list I picked up a free IPX.  [...]
" 
" > What OS should I run on it today.
" 
" (I'm assuming that's a question, despite the punctuation.)  That
" depends on your tradeoffs.  If you want the classic Sun feel, you might
" try to track down a copy of SunOS 4.x, or Solaris 2.x, depending on
" which feel you associate with classic Suns.  (As I recall the
" timelines, SunOS would be the more authentic for the IPX, but I've
" never had a good grasp on those timelines, so ICBW.)

sunos4 would be period-correct for ~'90.

" > What[']s the biggest capacity and fastest type of hard disk I can use
" > with it[?]
" 
" Depends on how much you're willing to spend and what additional
" hardware you're willing to use.  With an IDE<->SCSI bridge, you could
" use drives up around the hundred-gig range.  With SATA<->SCSI (I've
" never seen one but would be astonished if they didn't exist),
" multi-terabyte drives are available.
" 
" If you stick with SCSI all the way to the disk, I don't know.  I don't
" think I've heard of larger than "72GB" (meaning 72 disk-manufacturer
" artificially shrunken GB, actually about 67GB), though it's entirely
" possible there are larger disks I just don't know of.

seagate has 300G cheetahs, both 10k and 15k rpm.  they're sca; the
largest narrow-scsi is 18G, maybe 36G.
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