new find: Sun Ultra 10

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Fri Jan 30 20:31:05 2004

On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:23 PM, Joe R. wrote:
> I just got home and opened it up. Things are looking good! It has
> four
> sticks of Kingston KTS7030/512 memory. I looked them up online. Each
> pair
> is 512Mb so that means it has 1Gb of RAM! The hard drive is a Seagate
> Barracuda II model ST320420A. That's an Ultra ATA/66 8.5 mS 7200RPM
> 20.4Gb
> drive. It's not SCSI but it will do! The CPU is PN 501-5040. That's a
> 300
> Mhz UltraSpark IIi CPU with a ceramic CPU and 512k cache. It's not the
> fastest thing out there but again, it will do!

   <mutters comments about Joe's ancestry>

   That's a damn fine catch, Joe. Like Zane said, the IDE subsystem is
slow as payday, but other than that it's a sweet machine.

> Now where can I find Windeos for this thing? :-)

   You just missed SoftWindows For Unix on eBay.... Or, you can snag
one of those AMD SunPCi cards that are going nearly for free and run
plain old NT or Win2K on it. :)

> Seriously, I found an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW PCI SCSI controller
> today.
> Will it work in the SUN?

   Probly not, unless you run $Free_OS on it. Most anything with a
Symbios chip will work, but you may have to boot from the IDE disk. I
know for a fact that an IBM-badged 53C875 out of an RS/6000 will boot
that box.


        Doc
Received on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 20:31:05 GMT