[SunRescue] Rescued SS10

[Mike Nicewonger]

Subject: [SunRescue] Rescued SS10


> I am the proud owner of a Sparcstation 10.  Being new to the Sun hardware
> realm I have a few questions.

Cool welcome aboard the Sun train!

>
> What type of Hard drives can I use in this system?  Is it SCSI-2, narrow?
> What kind of external drive cases will work with it?

Pretty much any 50 pin single ended drive. Most externals will work with the
right cableing and termination.

>
> What type of mouse/keyboard? Type 5?

Type 4, 5 or 6 will work.

>
> What is the quickest/easiest/cheapest add a CD-ROM to the system?

There are some cheap Sun OEM drives around, you will need an external one
since the SS10 does not support an internal drive. Email me privatly if you
want one.

>
> I want to put a small practice Oracle database on it.  I know it will
crawl,
> so maybe more CPUs, RAM.  It has 64Mb and since I will only be practicing
> DBA tasks and backup/recovery on it.

I'd put more ram in it for Oracle, otherwise it should be fine. Slow but
good for learning on.

>
> I got it solely to gain familiarity in using the Solaris/Oracle thing.
I've
> done DBA work for 2 years, and Unix sysadmin for 4 years.
>
Cheers,

Mike N