[SunRescue] `Bigger' height SCA disks in SS5 ?

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed May 9 10:14:24 CDT 2001


On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> Mike wrote:
> > Unless you want to 'modify' your SCA backplane you cannot use thicker than
> > 1" drives in the SS5 or 20.
>
> The *only* place I can think of for using the larger SCA disks
> would be a multipack. I've seen people run into this problem
> in E450s among other things.

The E250 has ample room for 1.6" high drives in its internal SCA backplane
(there are only 6 slots, after all).  The 450 can as well but you have to
skip every other slot.

-James




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