[rescue] replacing an Ultra2

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 12:08:31 CDT 2007


Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:48:50AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> It's pretty obvious, though, that the intended application was for drives
>> that slot-in, and the cable was a bit of an afterthought.
> 
> Good example:  Sun x2100.  I'm *so* glad that Sun decided to use the 
> good-old-standard "spud" brackets on this system (you personally know
> this machine as "staging").  It came with a single 80G SATA drive with
> an ugly WHITE spud bracket - the drive slots in just like SCA disks do.
> 
> I quickly replaced that with two 500G SATA drives and purple spud brackets
> out of a D1000 (for color).  Worked just fine.

Speaking of spuds.  Anyone know where I can get spuds cheap?  I need a 
whole big pile of them.

Peace...  Sridhar



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