[SunRescue] SS4 chassis/drives

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lockwood [mailto:james at foonly.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:51 PM
> To: Sun Rescue List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SS4 chassis/drives
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > What chassis does the SS4 use?  Something tells me that 
> it's not the aurora
> > chassis a la SS5/20, but I'm not sure.  Does it take 50 pin 
> drives, or SCA?
> 
> Same case as the SS5/SS20.
> 
> The Sparc_Station_ 4 uses a wimpy 50W? P/S that doesn't 
> retain power state
> among other things.  It's a piece of junk.
> 
> The Sparc_Server_ 4 uses the regular 150W SS5/SS20 P/S.
> 
> Although the SS4 chassis has the metal bracketry for mounting 
> hard drives
> in SS5/SS20 style, it doesn't normally mount them this way.  It has a
> single hard drive bracket bolted directly to the motherboard 
> that accepts
> an SCA drive in a SS5/SS20 sled.  Early versions had insufficient
> vibration damping and had many problems.

Ahh, more fodder for the SHR.  Thanks.

> 
> There isn't normally an SCA disk card installed for the front 
> bays.  You
> can put one there from a SS5 or SS20 if you really want to.
> 
> Go for an SS5 if you can.  Back when the SS4 was $2k cheaper 
> than the SS5
> it made sense, but not now.  Actually, let me take that back. 
>  They make a
> decent "first sparc" for someone on a really low budget.

Hmm, well Fred has some for (dirt?) cheap, and I'm always looking for more
toys.  My SS20 isn't fast enough for my tastes as a workstation, although
Solaris7 (NO tweaking) is faster than Linux 2.2.x on it.  Of course, if
anybody has an Ultra1 (even just the base chassis) for the price of that
SS4, I'll take it.  :)
	Greg