[rescue] Re: SparcEngine 20 / Aries Marixx SS MBUS Speed

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. rescue at hawkmountain.net
Sun Mar 2 21:25:09 CST 2003


Due to the way drives mount in a SS10, there is no room for adapters....
Although if the cables were all reoriented so the rear of the drive was
toward the motherboard instead of the front of the case, there might be
room....

-- Curt

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>From: Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz>
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>Subject: [rescue] Re:  SparcEngine 20 / Aries Marixx SS MBUS Speed
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>> the only "drawback" is no internal CD-ROM (which if you have an Aurora 1
>> chassis is nothing to cry about :-), and uses 50 pin drives (which are not
>> cheap if you want a decent capacity).
>> 
>> So... anyone have any ideas ?
>> 
>> -- Curt
>
>No ideas about sorting the clocking issue, but you can get cheap SCA to 50/68 
pin adaptors fairly easily these days. Maybe that's the way to go for cheap 
capacity?
>
>Reagrds,
>
>Gavin
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