[geeks] HD compatibility for ultra2?

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Wed Apr 24 13:36:05 CDT 2002


on 4/24/02 2:21 PM, Bill Bradford at mrbill at mrbill.net wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:16:07PM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
>> It looks like (thanks, Pete) I'll be getting an ultra2 here in the next
>> few days. I'm ordering it sans graphics card and sans hard disk.
>> My reasoning for this was that I'm most likely going to use it headless
>> anyways, and also that I could find my own steenking hard disk for it.
>> Now, I just replaced the cdrom in the one thats on my desk here at work,
>> and as I recall, it was a 50-pin unit. Are the drives in question here
>> also 50-pin?
>> Can I just go out and buy any 50-pin scsi hard disk? Ideally I'd like to
>> get 10k or 15k rpm drives for the box, hopefully 2x 18gb or 2x 36gb.
>> What are my requirements for disk in this monster?
> 
> Nope, the hard drives in an U2 are SCA and require a Sun "spud bracket".
> 
> Only the CD-ROM is 50pin.
> 
> Bill

Not to also mention the Hard Disks need to be the low profile 1" drives, no
taller.

Mike N



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