Re: Ressurecting an IPX

I prefer NetBSD as well for my older sun4c/m sparcs.  I also had a sparc LX
which I put in a 68 pin 18 gig drive internally with an adapter.   It was
really  tight and the case is hard to close.  I think I had to remove the
floppy for all the cabling but I could find shorter cables and this would be
a non issue.  I have a sparc tadpole 3gx that I just obtained and will be
putting netbsd on it very shortly.  I used to use netbsd on my old IPX that
I naively got rid of when I obtained my LX.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:19:16 +0000
> "Angus Fox (Mac.Com)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What OS should I run on it today. No GUI required. Need good disk
> > utils, like rsync, and smb/afp or nfs networking.
> NetBSD. Period. I am running NetBSD on sun4c SPARCs for 15 years now
> and it simply and plain Just Works (C) (R) (TM). pkgsrc will give you
> any additional software you need.
>
> If you wane get a blast from the past use SunOS 4.x.
>
> > Whats the biggest capacity and fastest type of hard disk I can use with
> it.
> The IPX has 8 bit SCSI, Fast SCSI at best. So you will not get more
> then 10 MB/s as this is the limit of the SCSI interface. You should be
> able to use any SCSI disk, even "modern" LVD disks. You may require a
> 68 pin to 50 adapter and this adapter may cause mechanical problems due
> to the limited space in the IPX.
> --
>
>
> \end{Jochen}
>
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