[SunRescue] Making SCA disks useful

[Chris Byrne]

Rob,

I've bee picking up the adapters for $14.99 USD a piece at a local computer
store here. I'm resonably certain that if you were to buy a bunch of them
one of the distributors over here would make you a big discount. They are
pretty light weight, so shipping shouldnt be TOO bad but I dont know what
the customs charges would be.


Chris Byrne
-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Robert Rose
Sent: 15 April 2001 18:34
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] Making SCA disks useful


Hi all,

I can get a hold of a heap of SCA disks reasonably cheap (2gb and 4gb, SE
and Diff) but they're not much use without some method of attaching them to
my Sun boxen.  I'm looking for cheap SCA to 50 pin (I could make do with
68) adaptors or some type of cheap SCA backplane, all the ones I've found
so far are going to cost more than the disks I'll be attaching to them.

I've had no luck trying to get an SSA-100 locally (it would cost far too
much to ship from the US) and second-hand multipacks cost a premium,
particularly the 12 slot ones.

If anyone has a cheap source of adaptors, or could point me towards a
source of a cheap backplane (maybe a few), I'd appreciate it.  Anything
shipped from the US would need to be as small and light as possible, so a
12U rackmount job is probably out of the question.

cheers,

Rob.

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