On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Mark Browne wrote: > I am trying to put Mandrake on my Sparcstaion 5. > Can anyone point me to a list of what SCSI hard drives are compatible with > this hardware? > Thanks If it's anything like the Sparc 4 (oh wait, it's nearly identical), it uses SCA hard drives. Heck, I'll even verify that. Yep. According to http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ss5/ : "On the left side of the machine is room for two, 1-inch-high SCA SCSI Harddrives (stacked ontop of one another), with the SCA connector providing power, SCSIbus, and setting the SCSI ID." The only problems I foresee are sleds (which Carl says he has), and processor speed. (I hope, for your sake, that you don't have the 170MHz model; it's known for problems with Linux.) SCA hard drives aren't particularly difficult to find; I too have a couple of 1-gig's floating around, as well as a 2-gig I just (last night) cycled out of my Sparc 4 (which, unfortunately, can only evidently take one HD). If you're looking for bigger, MPC (http://www.materialsprocessing.com/) has some used SCA drives, some of them rather large. And huh, I don't think I was aware that Mandrake has a Sparc version, either. Jima