[SunRescue] SCA drives...

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

There is also .75 high sca now.  I've never seen one, but several are
listed.
	Nick

On Wed, 3 May 2000 apotter at icsa.net wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> > > Of course, the acquisitions person called our sun reseller who said we
> > > can't do that and need to go extternal for a drive that big.  With a
> > > $1400 price tag.
> > > 
> > > I'm just basically looking for confirmation that there isn't a problem
> > > with putting an 18G SCA drive in a sparc 5 (we have the 
> > > brackets necessary)
> > 
> > Should be just fine, assuming that you've got a 3billion cubic feet per
> > minute fan in there...  :-)  Any SCA drive should work in the SS5.....
> 
> Not quite true.....  SCAs come in half height and low profile.  The 4/5/20 chassis needs low profile, which is (he measures the dead gigger he's using for a paperweight) one inch high.
> 
> I learned this the hard way with a cheapass fujitsu 9gigger from compgeeks.com.  Fortunately, an sca <-> wide adaptor let it live in my dual cpu linux box and all was not lost.
> 
> I would also be very wary of heat issues.  Make this the only drive in the chassis if you can.
> 
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> 
> AL
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