[SunRescue] Sun Sparcstation 2 SCSI drive

Paul Khoury pkhoury3 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 12 03:44:25 CST 2000


On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:11:23 -0800, Stou Sandalski wrote:

>Hi, I was wondering what kind of SCSI harddrive do I need for a Sun
>SparcStation 2? the one I have is only like 170MBs and thats not realy
>enough for much, I was looking at pricewatch.com and under scsi I saw this:
>2.0GB HAWK SCSI2 WIDE DIFF. 5411RPM 10.5ms 512K CACHE 68 PIN 3.5LP. Can I
>use this for a SS2?
>
Only if you have a Wide Differential Controller.  Those are pretty good drives
(I have the 5.25" FH version), but you need a special controller for it.

Look for a narrow SCSI-2 drive.

Paul








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