[geeks] HD compatibility for ultra2?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, 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.

Congrats!

> 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?

No, they are 80-pin SCA.

> 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?

*Must* be 1" high or less, SCA, and have the sun "spud" brackets.

-Pete