[rescue] Sun Sparcstation 20 hard disks

J. Alexander Jacocks jjacocks at mac.com
Wed Aug 24 15:33:41 CDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Scott Newell <newell at cei.net> wrote:
> At 03:13 PM 8/24/2011, Oliver Cromwell wrote:
>>
>> My big concern is the current state of the hard drives, and they range in
>> size and age it appears.  I would like to fully replace all disks on these
>> systems with new disks but need some guidance.  It looks like they are
>> SCA-2
>> disks with a single-connector interface and a SS can use disks up to 2GB
>> in
>
> SS/2 isn't SCA.

True...however it's fairly easy to mount a disk sideways (giving up
the second disk space) and use an SCA/50pin adapter.  IDE/SCA adapters
are also easily usable, but they are a bit more expensive.

- Alex


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