Re: Ressurecting an IPX

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

> Thanks to the list I picked up a free IPX. Still my favourite shaped 
> Sun. Time to get it going again.

Yes they are an excellent design - eminently stackable and very easy to 
fine a place for. I have a few IPX systems and I think one LX and that's 
my fave but each to their own. 8-)

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

NetBSD is probably the best match IMHO. It's low-budget in terms of what 
system resources it needs and has plenty of active support.

> 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).

I think you could use any disk up to about 72 gb - maybe 146 - but if you 
want internal drives you're limited to what you can find in the 50-pin 
department. 1" high good capacity 50-pin drives are hard to find. If you 
go external then you can use any sort of adapting/cabling to connect to 
the rear SCSI port.

The version of the OBP may be the limiting factor in booting options. 
Which reminds me I need to do something about the collection of various 
OBP images I have on a machine that's not running and get them onto one 
that is. 8-)

Craig.

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