johnj@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (John A. Johnston) (11/16/90)
In the next month, I will have "leftovers" of an upgraded 4/280 system. Sun will cart off the system cabinet & cpu & ram when they put together the 4/490 (basically a whole system) that replaces the 280 via an upgrade from Sun. This will leave me with the following hardware that I wish to use in a 4/280: One xy 6250 tape drive & controller Two xd (SMD-4) disk controllers Three 892 Mbyte disks One 230v expansion cabinet (76") I would like to buy a 4/280 card cage & cpu (and some RAM) to use with the above. I'll need to install the card cage into the expansion cabinet, as well as the disks & tape and associated controllers. (Probably not me, a qualified Sun tech will do it really) Has anyone done a 4/280 piecemeal like this? I plan to use all Sun parts & several re-sellers say they can supply them. I'd like to be sure of the proper part numbers to use and whether this can actually be done with little trouble (other than hefting that tape drive into the rack (-:).