Re: Sparc Report (1)

["Stephen Carter" <carter@example.com>]

From what I understand, the 80 pin SCA drive use 68 pins for
the drive control and 12 pins for power all on a "Single Connector" and is
thus
called "SCA" which stands for Single Connector Attachment.

You noticed the "other" standard 50 pin connector on a cable also inside the
box, I"m sure. It is plugged into the CDROM when one is present, and so also
is the standard Molex power connector, just like a regular SCSI or IDE drive
would take--the 50 pin connector is for SCSI. I've never hooked up a hard
drive to it--does it work for other than for a CDROM?

What 10 pin interface do you see in your Sparcs? I can't find one in mine.

I'll be really interested in how you get the Install working over the
network. I haven't done that yet, and want to.

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Morgan" <j-morgan@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Sparc Report (1)


> Well, fellow Sparc Station 20 recipients, here is my brief report and
> update. I finally got all the parts I needed at ETS: 64 MB RAM (Y13,000),
2
> GB HDD including a plastic mounting bracket (Y8,000), and a VGA monitor
> converter (Y3,000). I rushed home and installed all the parts. Hit the
power
> switch, and NOTHING! Being the greedy person that I am, I did grabbed 2
last
> Saturday so ended up pulling the power supply out of one and put it in the
> other. Bingo, we got Sparcness! My next step will be setting a BOOTP
server
> on my Intel machine for installation purposes.
>
> One stupid question: Do I have to connect something to the HDD? (e.g.
power)
> I noticed there is a 10 pin interface, but can't find anything that could
> possible fit into it. And yes, I did connect my HDD to the appropriate
SCSI
> slot on the inside of the case.
>
> Thanks
> --jack
>
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