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Terrific Haul: $0

I got one of these Quadra 950s booted up.

Main drive is a 1 GB IBM drive on the motherboard bus, mounted where the CD would go.

It has the 5 drive shelf, all 5 drives are Quantum 9.1 GB drives, set up in a RAID 5 array to get about 36 GB of space. Freakin' sweet. Fast, fault tolerant - what more could you ask for. I assume the other 950 is similar. There are more, what appear to be 9.1 GB drives in a box.

For some reason when I boot with all the extensions on it never boots - it gets to the Desktop and just kind of freezes up. Right now I have enabled only the "Remus" extensions and a control panel for the SCSI card and it boots right up.

The other 950 is not producing a startup sound. It may need a battery?

The 9150 is in storage due to lack of space at this time.

I'm definitely considering making one of these a server. If I can configure it somehow to only use a small slice of my upload bandwidth - I get 1 mbps upload and it would need to be limited to like 256 kbps or so as not to monopolize it. Then I could run Hotline and maybe a basic web server just to say I have a 950 web server. A/UX a possibility but I don't know if Hotline can run on that.

 
the raid q950 must almost destroy your ears when it's turned on.

one of my long term projects is to quiet down mine.

very nice haul

 
Follow up:

The old PC that I got with this haul does not seem to work. But there is a bonus inside: a total of 8, 64 MB Parity FPM SIMMs. I have only dealt with ordinary 64 MB SIMMs so I don't know if Parity is any better or not, when used in a Mac.

 
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