Re: Seagate Barracuda drives for SparcStation20
kegwasher wrote: Blars Blarson wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barracuda drives, each 9G in size. The model number is ST19171WC. I should chime in I have Seagate Barracuda 2.1g drives for my Ultra1e, they are annoyingly loud! I would look into some IBM drives if you can. Of course if your not in the same room with your machines, you should be OK. -Mark If you can get one to fit in your sparc 20, it should work fine. I've had mixed experince with seagate drives, (some had high infant mortality) and none with that model. You may be able to use it in the upper slot with the cover off. Cases designed for sca drives are wide, so you would need an adapter cable. You could use a case designed for narrow with a sca-50pin adapter, but they sometimes fall off and you need a little extra room in the case. Since www.surpluscomputers.com has 9 gig sca 1" high drives for $10, I think that would be the cheapest and easiest solution. (Disclaimer: While I'm a reasonably satisified customer, I've never mail ordered from them.) I have mail ordered from surpluscomputers.com and been very pleased. I have ordered direct and bought from them via ebay (that is how I found them). Very helpfull staff when something gets confused. I suppose I should not say that. someone else might actually be interested in the old sun hardware they sometimes have. disclaimer: I do not work for or know any one who does...
Re: Seagate Barracuda drives for SparcStation20
Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: >>Barracuda drives, each 9G in size. The model number is ST19171WC. > > If you can get one to fit in your sparc 20, it should work fine. I've > had mixed experince with seagate drives, (some had high infant > mortality) and none with that model. You may be able to use it in the > upper slot with the cover off. > > Cases designed for sca drives are wide, so you would need an adapter > cable. You could use a case designed for narrow with a sca-50pin > adapter, but they sometimes fall off and you need a little extra room > in the case. > > Since www.surpluscomputers.com has 9 gig sca 1" high drives for $10, I > think that would be the cheapest and easiest solution. (Disclaimer: > While I'm a reasonably satisified customer, I've never mail ordered > from them.) > I have mail ordered from surpluscomputers.com and been very pleased. I have ordered direct and bought from them via ebay (that is how I found them). Very helpfull staff when something gets confused. I suppose I should not say that. someone else might actually be interested in the old sun hardware they sometimes have. disclaimer: I do not work for or know any one who does...
Re: Seagate Barracuda drives for SparcStation20
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Barracuda drives, each 9G in size. The model number is ST19171WC. If you can get one to fit in your sparc 20, it should work fine. I've had mixed experince with seagate drives, (some had high infant mortality) and none with that model. You may be able to use it in the upper slot with the cover off. Cases designed for sca drives are wide, so you would need an adapter cable. You could use a case designed for narrow with a sca-50pin adapter, but they sometimes fall off and you need a little extra room in the case. Since www.surpluscomputers.com has 9 gig sca 1" high drives for $10, I think that would be the cheapest and easiest solution. (Disclaimer: While I'm a reasonably satisified customer, I've never mail ordered from them.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
Re: Seagate Barracuda drives for SparcStation20
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > A month or so ago I sent an e-mail to the list about getting some larger > drives for my SparcStation 20. The consensus was look on places like > ebay and the like. I mentioned to a friend of mine about looking for > drives for this machine, and it turned out he had some 80-pin SCSI > drives from a decommisioned Sun workstation. He got the drives thinking > they would work in his computer, but the connectors were different, so > he never used them. So, he gave them to me and now I have 4 Seagate > Barracuda drives, each 9G in size. The model number is ST19171WC. To the best of my knowledge it cannot be done without altering the hardware. I got one ST19171WC by mistake myself and found no way to connect to the SS20 as the drive side will clash with the upper sca connector. One way to use them would be to find a 6bay 711 sun enclosure ... By the way you should also check if the ST19171WC is SE/LVD or HVD. (There is a full family of ST19171W ... Saluti, Antonio Prioglio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /"\ \ /ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Seagate Barracuda drives for SparcStation20
Hi. A month or so ago I sent an e-mail to the list about getting some larger drives for my SparcStation 20. The consensus was look on places like ebay and the like. I mentioned to a friend of mine about looking for drives for this machine, and it turned out he had some 80-pin SCSI drives from a decommisioned Sun workstation. He got the drives thinking they would work in his computer, but the connectors were different, so he never used them. So, he gave them to me and now I have 4 Seagate Barracuda drives, each 9G in size. The model number is ST19171WC. The drives are slightly taller than the drives currently in the machine, so I can't just pop out my old 1G drives and put in these 9G drives, but I'm guessing I can just install 1 of these drives in the machine, and leave the second connection unused. I see no reason why this should not work (assuming I can get the drive installed), unless there is some bizarre requirement that two drives need to be in the machine. I'm mailing the list with two questions. First, what sort of experience does anyone out there have with these drives? Are the reliable or not, or do they fail frequently. Second, can anyone recommend a place selling some sort of kit that would nicely change these internal hard drives to external drives? I've seen things like this before, but don't know just what is available now. A google search turned up some info on the Aurora-sparc list about someone getting disks like this and trying to use them in SparcStation5 machines. He couldn't get these drives to work as internal drives, but a reply to his mail suggested a type 611 case from ebay. I'll go look for these things, but if someone knows of other similiar kits I'd be glad to hear about it. Thanks in advance. Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
