[SunRescue] RE: Ken's SS/5-170 case...

[Mike Nicewonger]

Ah so!

For whatever reason I was thinking you were confused about an Aurora 2 box.

Silly me :)

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Hansen" <Ken.Hansen at ICTI-USA.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] RE: Ken's SS/5-170 case...


> Mike,
>
> My SS/5-170 (in deed, all the SS/5s *I've* seen - must be nearly six of
them ;^) were of the "skinny CD-ROM drive" variety, which would make it an
Aurora case, IIRC.
>
> The reason you can only put a 4x drive in it is because that is the
fastest available drive in that particular size. There are reports of
faster, but they were not designed for this application and appear to be
hard to find.
>
> *If* I had an Aurora2 case, I certainly could shove a faster drive
inside...
>
> I will map the internal CD-ROM to oldcdrom (thanks for the tip!) and a
faster, external drive to cdrom using the openboot prom devalias command
(IIRC).
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> <snip>
>
> Message: 16
> From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] RE:SS/5-170...
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:00:35 -0400
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> OK I am confused. Does Ken's 'unladen' SS5-170 have the standard Aurora or
> Aurora 2 case? I thought the CD-ROM in the A2 was of a standard CD-ROM
5.25
> 1/2 height standard like the rest of the world? Having asked that why
can't
> you put anything faster than a 4x in the beastie?
>
> I guess I will have to dig out the SS5-110 I have here in an A2 case and
> see.
>
> Mike N
>
> >
> > > Any pointers to info on a faster internal drive?
> >
> > see my other post, 4x is fastest in that case.
> >
> > > And finally, anyone have pointers to a pre-compiled PHP/Apache set of
> packages
> > > for Solaris 7? I'd like to get some web info set up *without* the need
> to
> > > install a development environment...
> >
> > i don't know of any off hand, but i'd be willing to whip you up one if
> you'd
> > like.
> >
> > > Ken
> >
> > -brian
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