Re: tested harddrives [was: RE: Urgent!!!! server problems]

[John Klos <john%sixgirls.org@localhost>]

> I was just wondering if any has tried an IBm 7N6340 68 pin 36 gig  and
> used a 50 pin to 68 pin adaptor. Does this work well? I talk to someone
> at IBM and they say that the drives should work as long as I have a low
> voltage controller. Does any one know if the controller on a Blizzard 2060
> is low voltage?

Unless the drive is LVD-only, it'll work fine. Drives which are really
LVD-only are quite rare. I've used many, many wide drives on narrow
busses. SCSI is smart like that.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs