Ultra 40 M2 questions
Hi
My PC recently died, and I'm looking for a replacement. The main two candidates are a Ultra 40 M2 and an HP xw8/9400. I won't ask any HP questions here ;-)
There are a couple of things that bother me a little about the Sun machine.
1) No serial port. I've seen in another thread that it should be possible to buy a connector. Alternatively, there are USB to Serial converters. The two things that I'm likely to use are my old external dialup modem (which I use once or twice a year when my ADSL ISP is down) and to connect to my HP calculator. Does anyone have any working experience with either of these two solutions?
2) No floppy disk. On my old PC, I used the floppy to boot DOS in order to do backups with Norton Ghost. It should be possible to make a bootable CD from a floppy image, though I've never tried it. Alternatively, any suggestions for a different backup method?
Now a couple of SCSI related questions:
I'd like to transfer data from my old PC. It has 4 hard disks, 2x U2W SCSI, 1x UW SCSI and 1x FAST2 SCSI. I'm not sure if the HBA is still working; if it is, then I should be able to just plug it into the U40 and then read the data. However, if it isn't, will I be able to plug at least the U(2)W disks into the integrated hba?
Are SAS disks bootable from the integrated hba? (the Dell Precision 690 has to boot from a SATA disk, according to their web site)
Paul
