[rescue] So what kind of drives does this use?

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Fri May 17 06:24:44 CDT 2002


On Friday 17 May 2002 06:59 am, you wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:33:32PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=20234
> > >33506
> >
> > Googling makes it look like it is fast narrow scsi 2.  I couldn't find a
> > place that says that, but people talking about putting RZ28s and Seagate
> > ST15150Ns in them, and those are narrow drives.
>
> That's right.  The drive cannisters convert from a humongous rectangular
> connector on the outside to regular SCSI-2 and power connectors on the
> inside.  You can upgrade the disks to just about anything, but the
> cannisters are a real *bitch* to get open and closed up again.

They aren't that bad to open/close. The nice thing as many have pointed out 
is that the cans will hold big fast narrow drives in either 1 or 1.6 inch.

The third bay is alomst always for a CD-ROM or tape. I have one of those 
storageworks boxes and like it.

Mike N



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