Ultra 5/10s are great machines to get into Sun UltraSPARC hardware. You pretty soon reach the limits though with them, but to make it a bit more viable I recommend this:
- Get a SUN SymBIOS SCSI card (has to have a Sun ROM to boot a SPARC)
- Get *2* decent UWSCSI drives about 9-18GB. They will fit, trust me
- Upgrade to at least 512MB of RAM.
- Get a Sun UPA framebuffer if it hasn't got one already (some have Creator3d cards in the UPA slot - look for a 13W3 video connector on the top card slot at the back). If you really want to go loco you could get an Elite3d m3 or m6 card, but that's probably overkill on a U10 [
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I had one specced right up like that and it was a neat little Solaris 10 box. I ultimately sold it and bought a Dual 450MHz Processor Ultra 60/elite3d with 1.5GB RAM though [
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For all your sun needs
SunHELP is invaluable, especially the SunHELP mailing lists (which I'm on several of). Don't be alarmed if the main SunHELP mailing list seems a little quiet, the daily backchatter tends to go on on other lists, but we all sub to it and help anyone who asks there.
I also suggest reading up on the machine at:
SunStuff (OSIAH)
You can look over all the other SPARC hardware there too and drool over the big enterprise servers
A useful tidbit you will need there is your machine falls into the 'sun4u' architecture classification (as do all other Ultras).
If you really get stuck in a corner then you can PM me. I've been through the learning process with the same machine as you so I know them pretty much inside out. My collection has since grown to 5 Sun SPARC machines of various types, and one Sun Java Workstation (x64 Opteron).