[SunRescue] What older sun can use these parts?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rouse [mailto:drouse at arlington.newsargus.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 7:53 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] What older sun can use these parts?
> 
> 
> I've got a five-year-old mixed Apple/AIX box (Apple Network 
> Server) at 
> home and I'd rather have a sun box, since that's what I've become 
> familiar with from work. I'd also like to cannibalize parts 
> from the AIX 
> machine, so as to keep my cross-grade costs as low as possible.
> 
> The AIX box has five 4GB Fast/Wide SCSI II drives (IBM and Seagate 
> Barracudas), an Apple 600i CD-ROM drive, an HP DDS2 tape 
> drive and 64MB 
> of 60 nano 168 pin parity DIMMS.
> 
> What I'm thinking is getting a sun box that would have just 
> an internal 
> drive (for the OS) and framer buffer and then get my drives 
> plugged in 
> as external drives. So...
> 
> * Is there an older Sun box that uses 168 pin parity DIMMS and would 
> have a Fast/Wide SCSI II external port?

I don't know about the ram, but SCSI should be easy enough to handle.  My
SS20 has Fast SCSI-2, IIRC, so I'd expect one of the low end ultras to have
Fast/Wide SCSI-2, although you could easily run those drives narrow, if
bus-width isn't a concern.

> 
> * Could I get those drives to work in Sun external enclosures (CD and 
> tape included)?

Why do you want Sun enclosures?  :)  Any external box should work just fine,
as long as it has connectors on the back, and you can get cables for it.  
	Greg