Subject: Re: Seeking a laptop scsi disk...
To: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/07/2006 12:26:42
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Hello,

On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:42, Julian Coleman wrote:

>> I've got a SPARCstation Voyager.  It's fine, except that the disk is
>> only 773 megs (that's as reported in dmesg at boot time), which I find
>> rather cramping.  Trouble is, it takes a laptop SCSI disk, which is a
>> rather rare item.  I don't suppose anyone has one looking for a home?
>
> I think the largest (old) 2.5" SCSI disk is 1.05Gb.  If you can find a
> drive sled for a Sparcbook with a larger drive, that will contain an 
> IDE
> <-> SCSI converter.  You can then add a larger disk (my Sparcbook has a
> 4Gb disk now).  I think the Sparcbook converters were made by ADTX.  
> The
> converters also come up as Mac items, as some of those had 2.5" SCSI
> disks.

Mine's 6GB but the board only negotiates 5MB/s transfers ( not much of 
a limit on this sort of hardware but still... )
AFAIK ADTX still makes them but they're rather pricey - better find a 
used or salvaged one ( like, from a dead sparcbook... )
IIRC at least some of these boards have a limit at 8GB for some reason.

have fun
Michael
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