Chapter 2 Product Description 2-3
Note – Some diskless Sun Blade 1500 workstations are configured without a hard
drive or optical drive.
Note – If you have a plastic rivet in the headphone jack of the optical drive, do not
remove the rivet. Instead, use the headphone jack at the bottom of the front panel.
The Sun Blade 1500 workstation also supports the following options:
■ Second hard drive
■ PCI SCSI host bus adapters
■ PCI serial communications adapters
■ PCI network adapters
■ PCI Fibre Channel adapters
■ SunPCi III Pro coprocessor cards
■ Sun StorEdge™ A1000, A5x00, and D1000 hard drive arrays
■ Sun StorEdge L1000 and L11000 tape drive arrays
2.2 External System Description
FIGURE 2-1, FIGURE 2-2, and FIGURE 2-3 identify external components and connectors
of the Sun Blade 1500 workstation.
Rear panel connectors
for external options
2 universal serial bus (USB) 1.1 connectors
2 serial connectors (DB-9)
1 parallel connector (DB-25)
1 twisted-pair Ethernet (TPE) 10/100/1000BASE-T
connector (RJ-45)
1 audio line-in connector
1 audio line-out connector
1394/USB card: 2 IEEE 1394A connectors and 3
universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 connectors
Front panel connectors
for external options
2 USB 1.1 connectors
1 headphone connector
1 microphone connector
TABLE 2-1 Sun Blade 1500 Configured Features (Continued)
Feature Description