[geeks] HD compatibility for ultra2?

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:16:07PM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
> It looks like (thanks, Pete) I'll be getting an ultra2 here in the next 
> few days. I'm ordering it sans graphics card and sans hard disk.
> My reasoning for this was that I'm most likely going to use it headless 
> anyways, and also that I could find my own steenking hard disk for it. 
> Now, I just replaced the cdrom in the one thats on my desk here at work, 
> and as I recall, it was a 50-pin unit. Are the drives in question here 
> also 50-pin?
> Can I just go out and buy any 50-pin scsi hard disk? Ideally I'd like to 
> get 10k or 15k rpm drives for the box, hopefully 2x 18gb or 2x 36gb. 
> What are my requirements for disk in this monster?

Nope, the hard drives in an U2 are SCA and require a Sun "spud bracket".

Only the CD-ROM is 50pin.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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