[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 50, Issue 10

[John Floren]

On 1/8/07, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:06:27PM -0500, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> > Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org>wrote:
> >>>> From: Michael-John Turner <mj at turner.org.za>Date: 2007/01/08 Mon AM
> >>>> 01:45:21 CST To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>Subject: Re:
> >>>> [rescue] some stuff I'm trying to find
> >>>
> >>>> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:48:13PM -0500, John Floren wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Second, I'm looking for a SCSI drive to go in a DEC Multia. It
> >>>>> sounds like a 50-pin drive should do it; if anybody in the area has
> >>>>> a few to part with, please contact me.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you want an internal drive, it'll have to be 2.5"
> >>>> SCSI. Alternatively, you should be able to hookup any drive in an
> >>>> external case that you can connect with a narrow SCSI connector.
> >>>
> >>> The multia supported 50 pin, 1" "regular" SCSI drives if the proper
> >>> chassis is involved - there was a PCI chasis and a SCSI chassis. One
> >>> could accomodate a short PCI card, the other would accept a 3 1/2"
> >>> SCSI drive. I guess if you could live with the poor IDE performance,
> >>> you could use a 3 1/2" IDE drive with the appropriate 44 pin to 40 pin
> >>> adapter cable in a SCSI chassis...
> >>
> >> Ah yes, that rings a bell.  My Multia had the PCI chassis and I used
> >> all external drives.
> >>
> > <snip>
> >
> > Several notes on Multia:
> >
> > 1) be _careful_ of internal heat.  It's very easy to cook a Multia with a
> > modern 3.5" SCSI HDD.
>
> Yes, they run HOT, and IIRC, didn't have much of a fan, if any.  If
> you've got the vertical mounting kit, use it, it vents out the side
> (top, if you use the vert mount).

Well, the last owner replaced the standard fan with a very noisy and
hopefully more powerful fan, so with luck heat shouldn't be a big
issue.


John
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