[H-GEN] Installing non-Sun drives into an E250

[Michael Anthon]

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Ohhhh.. bugger!
Looks like you might be right.  I managed to shift everything off one of the
existing drives just before I had to leave for home and didn't have time to
pull it out.  Will have a look first thing in the morning.  The doco that
comes with the machines really sucks.  I found the "handbook" for the drives
but it tells you stuff all about it apart from speeds and seek times etc.
nothing at all about the connectors.

Anyway, see how we go tomorrow.

Cheers
Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Arnold <pjarnold at techie.com>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>; Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Installing non-Sun drives into an E250


> G'day Michael,
> I think you'll find the E250 takes "SCA" (80 pin) drives not 68 pin.
> Just do a search on google for e250 and SCA.
>
> That said, there are new Sun/seagate 36Gb drives going on Ebay for about
> US$150-200. There's one guy selling several pallet loads at one every
> day for the last several months however he only posts US (maybe you know
> someone over there?) These particular ones come with a "spud" bracket
> which may or maynot fit the E250 but if you are swapping out a drive you
> could probably swap the brackets.
>
> Cheers
> Peter Arnold
>
> Michael Anthon wrote:
> >
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> > Hi Gents,
> > I need to increase the amount of space in my Sun E250 at work... the
> > internal drive bay is full so I'm looking at replacing a couple of the
> > existing 9G drives with 36G ones.  I have priced Sun supplied drives and
> > almost had a heart attack.  I'm now looking at putting Fujitsu drives in
> > (damn, don't have the specs here).  I'm assuming that the E250 takes
> > standard UltraSCSI (64 pin connector??) drives without any problems
however
> > I can't find a definitive answer anywhere.  Can anyone confirm that this
> > will work (or not) please?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Michael
> >
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