[SunRescue] Modern blue/grey deskside HD storage cabinet... what is it?

[Björn Ramqvist]

Actually, It's 3 trays. Two with those FH 5.25" (usually) Fast-Wide
Differential disks, which holds eight altogether. The third and upmost
tray can hold either four FH 5.25" (usually) Fast Single-Ended disks,
or, four HH 5.25" at the front and two FH 5.25" in the back of the tray.
The front drives are accessible from the front door on the box.

We had two or three of the IPI-variant (not even worth using) and two of
the SCSI-variant.

/Bjorn

James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> 
> > I saw in our surplus pit today, a deskside storage cabinet (blue/grey thing
> > with the drop down front half-door), and I was expecting it to be a 4/xxx
> > of some sort.  It turned out to be only an HD system.  Like a fool, I did
> > not write down the part number on the back, but I think it was a 595-xxx-xxx
> > series thing.  The cabinet has two HD50 scsi connectors like modern Sun
> > boxes of the same color.  Anyone have any sort of idea as to what kinds
> > of HD's are likely to actually be in this monster?  I saw 3 rows of 3
> > fans on the backside, so I am assuming it probably has several drive
> > bays inside.  Any insights as to what it might contain are appreciated.
> 
> If it was a SCSI chassis and had a similar look to a 4/x70, it was
> probably a SCSI Expansion Pedestal (shipped as X750/754/756).  Room for 8
> 5.25" FH drives (on 2 trays), they came stock with 1.3GB Seagate drives
> and sometimes an Exabyte 8mm drive.  800W p/s.
> 
> Be warned that most of these units shipped with only one tray, and you
> have to resort to creative mounting to hold more than 4 drives without a
> second tray.
> 
> -James
> 
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