[rescue] WTB: 50 Pin SCSI Drive

Mauricio Tavares raubvogel at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 08:24:02 CST 2011


Would you consider putting a larger drive in an external case instead?

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at artell.net> wrote:
> William Barnett-Lewis said ...
>
>> I attempted to install A/UX 3.0.1 on my SE/30 the other
>> evening. It didn't go to well as the partition utility ate my disk.
>>
>> Does anyone have a  2 gb or larger HD they can spare? My
>> budget isn't terribly large but I do have a couple of 73 gb
>> SCA drives I'd be happy to trade for a smaller 50 pin drive
>> that would work in my SE/30.
>
> If there's enough room, you can use a converter to make the SCA disks fit
> the 50-pin connector.  I've done this on numerous Sun and SGI machines over
> the years.
>
> Of course, you not only need physical room for the convertor, but the
> machine/OS has to be able to handle the size of the disk you install.
>
> -Shel
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