[SunRescue] SCA drives...

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

Well the last one I can answer <Grin>.  Because your developers refuse to
remove or change their log files (which are now ~4gig of text a pop)
<grin>.
	Nick

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: apotter at icsa.net [mailto:apotter at icsa.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:54 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SCA drives... 
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings:
> > 
> > > > Of course, the acquisitions person called our sun 
> > reseller who said we
> > > > can't do that and need to go extternal for a drive that 
> > big.  With a
> > > > $1400 price tag.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm just basically looking for confirmation that there 
> > isn't a problem
> > > > with putting an 18G SCA drive in a sparc 5 (we have the 
> > > > brackets necessary)
> > > 
> > > Should be just fine, assuming that you've got a 3billion 
> > cubic feet per
> > > minute fan in there...  :-)  Any SCA drive should work in 
> > the SS5.....
> > 
> > Not quite true.....  SCAs come in half height and low 
> > profile.  The 4/5/20 chassis needs low profile, which is (he 
> > measures the dead gigger he's using for a paperweight) one inch high.
> > I learned this the hard way with a cheapass fujitsu 9gigger 
> > from compgeeks.com.  Fortunately, an sca <-> wide adaptor let 
> > it live in my dual cpu linux box and all was not lost.
> 
> You mean a single half-height SCA drive didn't even fit?  The SCA connector
> is at the same height, and putting in in the carrier should have the
> connector aligned correctly.  Using 2 drives definately wouldn't work, there
> isn't enough space.  
> 
> > I would also be very wary of heat issues.  Make this the only 
> > drive in the chassis if you can.
> 
> Yeah, with an 18GB drive, why would you even put two drives in there?
> 	Greg
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