[rescue] U30 Construction

[Mike Dombrowski]

>> Just wanted to say that I too am a very satisfied Comdisco customer.
>> I'll probably be buying some more systems from her for work.
>> 
>I got my U30 today too. First time I've ever seen one in person.
>It fired right up, and passed all the prom tests. It's a hefty
>piece of work! I had to carry it a ways, it's not a light-weight.

First time for me too, damn thing is huge too. I'd much rather have a 
small tower, my Micro-Atx PC has spoiled the heck outta me. But I guess 
people who paid $15,000 for these things wanted something impressive 
:). First time I've ever seen one either. Is the U10 case smaller? All 
I really want is a shorter case, my one desk part is only 18" deep so 
the U30 overhangs by about 4inches right over my hamster cage :( 

I really hate the cdrom setup though, it was impossible to plug my 
cdrom into the machine so I had to twist the cable and get it out of 
the machine which was unpleasant. Now that Solaris 8 is installed I'm 
having problems with the damned hme not autodetecting properly, why do 
Sun machines have such problems? All my PCs autodetect properly no 
matter what card I use.


>There is no o/s on this one, and no cdrom. (But hey, the price
>was right). I assume you can install Solaris over a network? 
>Well, I'll find out soon enough. It will make an interesting 
>weekend project. I should get out more.

Price was decent, I would have rather had one of the other machines or 
a Creator3d tho. But I guess for $380 shipped one really can't 
complain. Strange that they used freight shipping too. Disk access is 
slow on this thing, a 10k drive would really speed it up methinks.

Mike