[geeks] IBM/Sun disk compatibility

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know for certain whether these drives will work in Sun
>>systems?  (And will they physically fit in U30/60/80?  I don't remember
>>whether they will take 1.6" disks or not.  I know they'll fit in a
>>6-slot 711.)
> 
> 
> The U60 I have takes up to two, 1.6" SCA drives.

Turns out the question's become moot, because at the price UnixHQ got
these drives in at, they can't compete with buying the same drive off
eBay, let alone in lots of 20 ...  much less compete with some even
cheaper-per-megabyte batches of four 36GB drives each that I just found.
 They're actually letting the vendor they got them from take them back
under warranty because they can't use them.

Now all I have to do is find $200 or so that we can spare to buy 36GB disks.

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