[rescue] [FWIW] RaSCSI

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> And I'm trying to figure out what it would take to use such a device
> in an Ultra 60.  Ideally I'd like to keep any hard drive emulator
> hardware inside the case, but I guess an external drive hanging off
> the SCSI connector on back of the system would be OK since the
> internal SCSI devices are on trays, except the CD drive, which is a
> 50 pin cable.

> Ideas?

I've got a Sun using a SCSI<->SATA bridge right now.  At the moment I'm
using an external enclosure, but there's no need for that; a laptop
SATA drive plus the bridge adds up smaller than the desktop-size drives
the internal bays are designed for.  The only issue I see is physical
mounting; mounting a laptop drive plus the bridge on an internal drive
sled strikes me as difficult unless you introduce something like a
piece of sheet metal which you mount the drive to (with laptop-spacing
mounting holes) and then mount on the drive sled (with desktop-spacing
mounting holes).

I've got two such bridges.  They are, however, Acard 7730A bridges -
not recent work.  But they _are_ evidence that it is totally possible
to build a bridge for putting SATA drives on a SCSI bus that doesn't
require external enclosures for a machine with internal bays sized for
desktop form-factor drives.

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