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

[Loomis, Rip]

Hmm...when I ran into this problem I ended up
putting the mistakenly-purchased 1.6" drives
into external cases with SCA<->50 pin adapters.
You can use the 1.6" drives in other Sun boxen
that use the "spud" adapters, but the SPARC 5/20
hard drive sleds won't (in my experience) close
and latch properly with the 1.6" drives, even with
the top off.

If I'd been able to get them to latch, then I
would have tried to form a custom top out of
fiberglass that would have had a "hump" for the
upper (too thick) disk...like some of the rice-burner
"sports cars" you see on the roads nowadays.  (My
SPARC 20 is in a SPARC 5 case, so it already has an
inferiority complex...) 

ObQuestion:
I've never played with differential SCSI-2 before,
but I've just been handed an SBus wide differential
plus Ethernet card.  Any things I should know about
cabling/termination differences between this and
regular FW/SE SCSI?

--
Rip Loomis
Brainbench MVP for Internet Security
http://www.brainbench.com (Transcript 1923411)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Sladen [mailto:paul at sladen.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] `Bigger' height SCA disks in SS5 ?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> 
> > Unless you want to 'modify' your SCA backplane you cannot 
> use thicker than
> > 1" drives in the SS5 or 20.
> 
> ....filing the top down down, possibley; I think I'll wait for more
> estetic options before I got for this one though!
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