[geeks] Seeking a laptop scsi disk...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Mike Hebel wrote:
> Thus spake der Mouse:
>> I've got a SPARCstation Voyager.  It's fine, except that the disk is
>> only 773 megs (that's as reported in dmesg at boot time), which I find
>> rather cramping.  Trouble is, it takes a laptop SCSI disk, which is a
>> rather rare item.  I don't suppose anyone has one looking for a home?
> 
> You seek the 1gb Apple powerbook SCSI drive though you do not know it.
> 
> The 1gb Apple powerbook SCSI drive is actually in most cases an IDE drive
> with a thin SCSI adapter on the bottom.  This adapter, so far, has proven
> to be universal.
> 
> Check E-Bay or check with people that have old Sparcbooks.

There are also some solid state disks out there in 2.5" SCSI format. 
They don't go for too much money used either.

I believe they were first designed to accelerate the operation of 2.5" 
SCSI RAID arrays in server settings.

Peace...  Sridhar