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In article <35b136d3.0@oit.umass.edu>,
	peerbhai@lessing.oit.umass.edu (Imran Peerbhai) writes:
> 
> Cool.  Does the IPX use a half height 5.25" scsi drive, a full size 5.25" 
> scsi drive, a 3.5" scsi drive, a 2.5" scsi drive, or some esoteric size?
> 

It takes a a 3.5" SCSI drive, with the same height as a half height 5.25"
drive (which I think is full height for 3.5" drives but I am not sure).

> Does the internal drive need to be id'd to a certain number?  I've read 
> that Sun likes 3 for it's internal drive, yet the PC world likes 0...
>

Does it? I have just replaced the drive in an IPX with an old 2Gb Hewlett
Packard job, and as I did not have the jumper diagram to hand I just
stuck it in and hoped for the best. It turns out to be on id two, and both
Solaris 2.5.1 and Linux seem to be happy with this.

>My el cheap SVGA monitor can do 1280X1024X60hz ni.  (Mag dx 1595, hsync 
>30-65, vsync 50-120.  If that hsync range went a little higher, I could 
>do vesa 1280X1024X72Hz...  Oh well... I keep it in 800X600X80hz.  I like it.
>

Is it a multi sync monitor?


>Will that do suns defaul vidmode?  1192X968X66 hz?  I don't know the 
>formula for converting vidmode to hsync/vsync ranges.

Er, don't you mean 1152x900 at 66Hz? This resolution uses nearly all the
memory avaliable out of 1Mb, leaves 11.5Kb which I assume is used for some
acceleration. You will also need a special 13W3 to 15 pin HD/BNC cable
depending on your monitor. However last time I looked, these cost
an arm and a leg. You can get adaptors for 13W3 to 15 pin HD, but this
will degrade your video signal and I would not recomend it.


JAB.


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