[rescue] has anyone used >72GB drives in a 280R?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Doug Simmons <dsimmons at lib.siu.edu>
>Date: 2007/10/29 Mon AM 10:40:32 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [rescue] has anyone used >72GB drives in a 280R?

>Sun says that anything over 72gb in a 280r is an unsupported
>configuration. But, is it a POSSIBLE unsupported configuration?
>
>I'm hoping someone will chime in and say, oh yeah, we've run 300gb
>drives in 280r's for a couple of years now...
>:-)

Well, I can't say that, but I bet it's a thermal issue, based on the heat thrown by the drives that were bigger than 72 Gig at the time the 280r was a current model...

Does/did Sun offer FC-AL drives greater than 72 Gigs "back in the day"?

Lionel