[SunRescue] Decstation 3100 and 5000/25 drives on Suns?????

BSD Bob bsdbob at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
Fri Aug 27 09:18:40 CDT 1999


I picked up several Decstation 3100 and 5000/25 machines in surplus today,
with the intent of using them for scsi drive fodder.  They seem to have
Quantum and Conner made drives with DEC badges on them.

They appear to be RZ24E,   RZ24L-E,  and RZ23L-E labelled.

Anyone have the specs on those for Sun 3, Sun 4, Sun SS1, Sun IPX use?
I have had bad luck trying to format these things using the standard
format.dat file info, for some unknown reason, on the old hardware.

The 23's are 1 gig, and the 24's are 2 gig, I think.

I am expecting I can use up to 1 gig drives in the sun3/sun4 things,
and the 2 gig drives in the sun4c things.  Is that correct?

Any suggestions or info is appreciated.

Thanks

Bob







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