[rescue] SCA drives

[Michael Still]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 7:29pm, Dan Duncan wrote:
> I have a few questions about SCA drives...
>
> I'm trying to populate the hot swap bays in my
> newly rescued HP Netserver LC2000R... (dual PIII-733MHz)
>
> For testing purposes I'm not especially concerned with
> obtaining the correct hot swap trays.  I have a few 1.6"
> SCA drives, so I figure I can just fit half as many, right?
> Wrong.  The connector doesn't attempt to reach.  Does
> the SCA connector on 1" drives normally stick out a little
> more, or are the 1.6" drives I have brain dead?
I agree that the 1.6" drives are part of the problem. Also many hp drive 
carriers have a little sca extender for the drive so that it sticks out 
some from the back. I do have an lp2000r (at work) but I don't remember 
if the carrier in there has that extension part. Since I guess that the 
extender was probably used to clear that space when putting a 1.6" drive 
in the backplane, then the lp2000r might not use it since it was 
designed for 1" only drives.

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