[rescue] hard drives for sparc10?

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Tue Jan 18 10:11:58 CST 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:23:35AM -0500, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 08:52, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > Shirker <shirker at mooli.org.uk> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Speaking of the Elite series, does anyone know where I can get 6
> > > (preferably a few more than that) 47GB Elites? They used to be all
> > > over everywhere (including ePay for about $6 per drive) but have now
> > > disappeared.
> > 
> > > 50pin interface idea, but any would do. TIA for any tips.
> > 
> > Three 120 GB ATA drives with SCSIDE converters are going to be more
> > reliable, and possibly cheaper if you consider the cost of shipping
> > breeze-block drives across the Pond.
> 
> Can these converters make a master and slave rig appear as 2 LUNs
> on the target... or are all of them engineered to control only one
> IDE device ?

Only one IDE device.  I think that the LUN arrangement would suck for
perfoamnce anyway.

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