[rescue] Sun machines supporting half-height hard drives

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Tue May 3 17:07:11 CDT 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix says ...
 
> Someone mentioned that a Sun E250 might be ideal for my uses.
> 
> That leads to a question:
> 
> Which Sun machines can handle 1.6" (half height) hard drives?
> 
> I have a pair of idle 18GB Fujitsu drives that I'd like to use for the
> OS.  They are 68-pin SCSI though.  Could I use them or is that out of
> the question.  Yes, I'd want them internal.

You might be better off trading those for something more suitable, or just
buying some LP SCA drives.

I have the opposite problem ... I have a couple of Fujitsu 1.6", 18 GB SCA
drives, and I wish they were 68-pin so I wouldn't have to use adapters to
put them in my SGI Challenge L.

Hmmmm.

-Shel



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