711 StorEdge Multipack (was: [rescue] Re: OSM-2000)

[George Adkins]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:38 pm, you wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:32:06PM -0400, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> > > There are two major variants--6-bay and 12-bay.  Both use spuds.
> > > It's single channel auto-terminating wide SCSI, whether you
> > > get the 12-bay or 6-bay.  Both can *supposedly* do UW-SCSI
> > > even though only a few have the little "UltraSCSI" label on
> > > the front bottom left corner.  The only other major difference
> > > is that (same as SPARC 5/20 chassis) the 12-bay will only do
> > > LP 3.5" drives, while the 6-bay will do HH (1.6") or LP (1").
> >
> > My understanding is that the 12 bay would do HH, if you left the next bay
> > empty.
>
> The 12 bay will only use LP drives.  A HH drive hits the empty SCA plug
> above the SCA plug that you are trying to seat the HH drive in.  Won't
> fit.
>

Depends on the drive, I've seen some IBM (older) drives where the SCA 
connector stuck out far enough to keep the drive body clear,  Maybe some of 
the seagate drives where the interface was on a daughterboard pasted on the 
back of the drive, like the ST15150WC's would fit.

George