Making a clone of your Activant SCO Unix Server

A intel main board with PCI slots would be nice.
945G or higher north bridge, just stay with in the socket 775 realm.

The SCO Unix kernel is multi cpu ready, the activant
applications are not threaded all that well. so you are not going
to get much of a benefit with more then 2 core's



The most important items are:
EIDE Hard drive - you can still buy these new
Intel or 3COM 3C905CX  10/100 network card's / No Support for gigabit!
Intel CPU Core2duo or the e3300, the e3300 is very strong chip for low money! $39
hopefully you choose one faster then what you already using.

more e3300 info, running this older software, it would vastly benefit from
a fast CPU clock, this cpu will run at 3.3ghz to 3.6ghz all day long rock solid stable,
just get some better cooling on this bad boy.





Ram, anything more then 1 gig will be kind of over kill,
however, Dual Channel DDR2 ram would add some extra speed for sure!

Adaptec SCSI card 29160, this is like the only SCSI card that works with SCO 5.05

so if you want your tape back up drive to work make sure you hit ebay and buy one,

also get your self a replacement tape drive as well. Also, the os will boot and function fine

with out this card in, just keep in mind, your backup's are not going to be written to tape.

Cards in the server that you might not need or even use,

EASY IO card, you may or may not be using this,
if you don't have this card installed, the os will still work and
boot just fine!

MODEM / Fax PCI card, - again the os will boot fine and function with out this card in there.

Don't build some big huge 1366 i7 monstrosity, to run your 1999 SCO Unix, you will feel
silly when it doesn't work at all, this stuff is just too new and will cause the os to kernel panic.
Unless you are going to virtualize :)

As a good resource you can always spend a couple minutes and browse through
the narrow band of drivers available that SCO has on their ftp site.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/drivers/OSR505

read some of the TEXTS, keep in mind this is a server os :-), or should i say that i have to keep
this in mind, :-D