[SunRescue] Half height drives.

[Bran Tregare]

is it possible that someone sold/gave you Floppy mounting sleds as HD 
mounting sleds... that happened to me :(

At 06:54 PM 2/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
>The 1 inch drives are 1/3 height.
>
>There is no reason the half height 1.6 inch drives won't work in the SS2.
>Most SS2's came with half height in them.
>
>Look at it again. I am sure you are missing the eureka bit.
>
>Mike N
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Harrison" <harrison at timharrison.com>
>To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:16 PM
>Subject: [SunRescue] Half height drives.
>
>
> >
> > Okay, this may sound stupid, but here goes:
> >
> > When I think of half height drives, I think of your common, generic
> > current IDE disk size.
> >
> > I ordered 3 half height 3.5" 50-pin SCSI disks from www.compgeeks.com.
> > This is what my SS2s want.  So, I get them in, get in the drive
> > brackets, and find that the disks just don't fit.  I measured a "half
> > height" IDE disk, and found it to be exactly 1" tall.  The SCSI disks
> > are 1 2/3" tall.  I also have some 68-pin Seagate Barracuda disks here,
> > that are also 1" tall.  This doesn't seem to fit in the bracket or into
> > the box.  Am I losing my mind?  Do I not know how to fit the damned disk
> > into the box?  Are my measurements being completely warped by some form
> > of meniscus in my eye? Is my concept of half height drives fundamentally
> > borked?
> >
> > Will our brave hero get his stupid SS2s running tonight?
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Tim Harrison
> > Network Administrator
> > harrison at timharrison.com
> > http://www.networklevel.com/
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