I have a Dec AlphaServer 300 4/266 that I want to put Linux on. It boots, although I dont have the root password for it. It has a cd and a built in ethernet port, so I was hoping to get it up and running using one of those for the installation.<br />
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My problem is this: it doesn't have a hard drive. From the online specs I found, it has the following:<br />
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Integrated Fast Narrow single edged SCSI-2 controller with DMA <br />
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The internal connector is blue (if that means anything in the scsi world), and looks like a large IDE type connector - I didnt count the number of pins but its a lot ;)<br />
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The hard drive options that originally shipped with this machine were:<br />
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RZ26N - 1.05gb 8bit narrow 5400rpm drive<br />
RZ28L - 2.1gb 8bit narrow 7200rpm drive<br />
RZ29L - 4.3gb 8bit narrow 7200rpm drive<br />
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I don't have a scsi cable for this machine, but I do have some old scsi drives from Sparc 5's<br />
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This machine is supposed to have a 2mb L2 cache, and the ram is maxed on the box, so I would like to see what it will do, performance wise.<br />
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Does anyone with scsi experience have any wisdom for me about where to find cables for this motherboard, and any suggestions on cheap hard drives? I dont feel like buying a new drive, because I dont have any scsi machines except the Sparc 5's, and they dont need another drive, anyway.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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