[SunHELP] 18GB disk in SPARC5

[Paul Khoury]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:02:46 +0100, Fletcher, Joe wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I picked up a Seagate ST118273WC drive off Ebay the other day. Genius here
>didn't check the spec properly. It was destined for my Alphastation 500/500
>but this doesn't use SCA connectors. I have a couple of SPARC5s however and
>I was wondering if anyone can confirm/deny the workability of this drive in
>one of those systems. 
>
Should work.  I have 2 IBM 4.5GB drives on my SPARC 5, and it's part of IBM's series of 9 and 18GB
drives, so I don't see why they shouldn't work.  Nice thing about bigger SCA drives
is they tend to be fast, 7200RPM or better. ;)

Paul