Other than the one bug noted, the system has been stable. I just upgraded to an S24 video card and have not seen the problem since. I am rather disappointed with video speeds. My 333 dual-head Matrox PC is faster. The system currently has dual 2 GB drives. I wish to upgrade to much larger drives - dual 9 GB or larger is the goal. The sun site is not much help on what limits, if any, apply. At this time I have condensed the requirements to: 1" high, 80 pin SCSI SCA drives. As indicated, the drive must fit in a standard drive sled to lock in the funky cage and mate with the connectors. Sun site lists transfer rate as 10 mbs, higher speeds would seem to be a waste of money. I have found hints that some drives run too hot on a fully loaded system, but no definitive answers. Sun documents 1,2, 4, and 9 GB sizes several places on the site. Is there any sort of limit on size, assuming I can get the drive to fit otherwise? I have another 128 MB of sun memory ready to bring this fire breather up to a full 256 MB. Somehow, in the age of multi-GB main memory that just does not seem as impressive as it once did. When this is all finished, this box will push web pages using Apache, Perl, and MySQL. I *know* that a vanilla PC would be quicker but: Its a sun box - my very own sun at home! Ya, I know, get a life and all that. Sigh. Mark Browne <snip> 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