[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Clay Mellender]

Oddly enough, Besides the onboard Battery problem, Multia's are a reliable
little box. I had an uptime of about 7 months on mine (166 mhz 21164 w/64
Mb) until I upgraded to RedHat 6.1...
 Running 5 Different websites, and ~20 E-mail Accounts. It isnt the fastest
box in the world, but it keeps chugging along :)
Stay away from the IDE Drives. Best config I found is use External SCSI and
put in a decent video card in the PCI Slot, if you have one.

Clay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Haas" <wedge at onlineimage.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC


> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Paul Khoury - Tech Support wrote:
> >
> > Alpha 166MHz, I think it's a 21264 or something like that.
> > I think I have 16MB parity in there now, but could put in 24MB,
> > has SCSI, SVGA, sound, parallel, serial, PCMCIA, 2.5" HD...
> >
>
> If memory serves:
>
> Alpha 166, upgradable to 233 (max)
> Uses True Parity SIMMs.
>
> SVGA is TGA or some odd-ball standard which gives decent resolutions but
> is limited to 256 colors(?)
>
> Sound is Windows Sound System Compatible(?)
>
> And wasn't there room for EITHER a floppy drive OR a hard drive. Not both
> at the same time.
>
> Also, onboard IDE (which was always recommended NOT to use, poor
> performance), with a common add-in SCSI card (?)
>
> > Small footprint, built-in ethernet (aui, tp, bnc)...
> >
>
> Small, slim machine (from the pictures I saw)... I was tempted to get one
> for a while, but didn't want to put a lot of money into it.
>
> Oh-- most of the Multia's 'BIOS' battery's were dead (in the cases I
> saw)... have you installed a new battery or doing some weird kind of
> workaround?
>
> Have fun.
>
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