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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:34 AM

I've rescued an old Sparcstation SS10 from the trash. It appears to
be in fairly good condition, but doesn't boot, giving the following
information:

SS10 (1x390Z50)
ROM Rev 2.9, 32MB RAM
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0
Data Access Error

The hard-drive sounds a bit raspy and is probably on its last legs.
Are there recommended currently available SCSI drives that could
replace it?

Anyway, beyond the above problem, I was wondering if anyone had an
opinion on the usefulness of this particular ancient workstation.
Beyond use as a firewall, could the SS10 with this little amount of
RAM run any version of Solaris and X well enough to do development
work?

Thanks in advance for all help and opinions.

-- Dan

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#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:34 AM

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, dsyu@remove.what.you.hotmail.think.is.appropriate. com wrote:

> The hard-drive sounds a bit raspy and is probably on its last legs.
> Are there recommended currently available SCSI drives that could
> replace it?

Any 50-pin, single ended SCS drive will do.

> Anyway, beyond the above problem, I was wondering if anyone had an
> opinion on the usefulness of this particular ancient workstation.
> Beyond use as a firewall, could the SS10 with this little amount of
> RAM run any version of Solaris and X well enough to do development
> work?

With only 32 MB of RAM? It would only be a waste of time.
For anything useful, you'll want at least 256 MB, especially
if you're planning to run X and any recent version of Solaris.

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA

President,
Rite Online Inc.

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