OT: Help! Sun Ultra 1 HD replacement?

[Jochen Kunz]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:44:40 -0700
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

> >	What's with the strange interface?
> That's not strange, it's an SCA SCSI drive
Yes. It is just SCSI with SCA connector. This SCA connector was
especially designed to make disks hot plugable.

> (I believe the controller is UW-SCSI, though on a Ultra 1, it might
> just be Wide SCSI).
IIRC the U1 has only Fast 8 Bit SCSI and 10 MBit/s Ethernet. The U1e has
wide SCSI and 100 MBit/s Ethernet. In addition the U1e has one UPA slot
insted of one SBus slot for faster graphics.

> You should be able to use any SCA drive though.
Seconded. You can get anything from a 1 GB disk from ebay up to the
latest, newest and fastetst disk with SCA connector from a hardware
shop. The U1 can take two disks, the lower can be 1" or 1.6" high and
the upper slot is limited to 1" height.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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