[Sunhelp] which disks for a sparc 5

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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>I am thinking about buying a second hand sparc 5.
>I would like to know what sort of disks it uses and how much (ia theres any
>timit I can add to it).
>I know the connector is SCA, but is the interface SCSI ? Ultra SCSI ? or
>doesnt it matter ?

Hmm, I was told that the SS5 uses standard SCSI-Wide disks. I certainly
know of someone who's managed to put a (pair of?) 18.2GB Fujitsu disks
in one. Basically, any Wide disk other than one of the 10K RPM disks,
and that's only because of the cooling.

I quite fancy the idea of a pair of 36GB IBM UltraStars. Besides even if
it *is* SCA, you know that you can get convertor cards quite cheaply.

Bob Cross,
(speaking for myself on this occasion).


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