[SunRescue] IDE drives...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue May 2 12:35:31 CDT 2000


On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:45:16PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Bill,
>     Please a source (and price) for the card? I am half-way to buying
> the Educational Ultra 5 we discussed a few days ago...
> Thanks,
> Ken
> n2vip at bellatlantic.net

I got mine secondhand, but Centrix International (www.centrix-intl.com) had
them for around $70 a few weeks ago.  BTW: *dont* get the Symbios 8725-based
card they've currently got for $39 - it will NOT work in an U5/10; I tried.
8-(

Bill

> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I had a nice 8.4gig Seagate Medalist drive in my u5/270, but if you
> > can, find a SYmbios 8751sp card and go scsi.  I did that last night
> > in my Ultra 10 and ist AMAZING how much difference it makes.
> > Bill

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