[rescue] SB2500 Silver follow up.

[William Barnett-Lewis]

I would suggest that the SB2500 is worth going for. The SCSI system is
faster and more robust than the IDE used by Sun. Once they got to SATA
on the Ultra 45 it's worth using those drives but not the earlier
ones.

IME and all that. Your mileage will vary, etc.  :)

One thing I will mention is that it was a much bigger performance bump
dropping the second CPU in than I expected.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 5:28 PM <mazzinia at tin.it> wrote:
>
> Sorry to intrude,
>
> I'm randomly keeping an eye open for a sb. Would it be better to wait until
> spotting a 2500 silver, or a 1500 red would have merit ? ( I think the 1500
> uses ide only )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue <rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org> On Behalf Of William Barnett-Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 9:09 PM
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] SB2500 Silver follow up.
>
> Nope SCSI bus on the 2500.
>
> The earlier 1000 & 2000 did have FC-AL but thankfully not the 2500. At least
> I have various SCSI disks floating around but no fiber.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 1:55 PM Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > I thought these were FC-AL for drives and not SCSI?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 at 19:39, William Barnett-Lewis
> > <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to all who have helped me with this project so far.
> > >
> > > I am now at
> > > 2x1.6 ghz Ultrasparc IIIi
> > > 8 gb
> > > 1x73gb 1x146gb and DVD
> > >
> > > Firmware is now at 4.30.4.a
> > > OS is 10 u11 with patches.
> > > I have Medley Interlisp built and running fine.
> > >
> > > Still want to upgrade to 16gb but the set I bought give 3 beeps and
> > > powers off when I try them.
> > >
> > > So I am still looking for:
> > >
> > > 8x2gb dimms
> > > Type 6 or 7 USB keyboard and mouse and if cheap  enough a 300gb +
> > > UltraSCSI drive and a Sun PCI IIIPro pc coprocessor for giggles.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > William
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