[rescue] Sun machines supporting half-height hard drives

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Wed May 4 23:49:24 CDT 2005


On May 3, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> 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.
>
> My memory tells me the E series machines only have the SCA  
> backplane and
> no 68-pin busses, but I figured I'd check here.
>

I have a pair of 1" 18GB Ultra3 Compaq SCA's... want to trade?   
(assuming these are Ultra LVD or faster).  I need a new boot mirror  
for my Powermac.

Andrew



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