Re: SCA SCSI drives for Ultra 1

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:48 AM, jim smith wrote:
> > >  Generally, with a machine of that age (I have a few myself), the  
> > > older the
> > > technology is, the more likely it is to work.  (*grin*)
> >
> > Not necessarily--I have found [the hard way] that Ultra 2's can be
> > particular about the SCA drives that will work.  I had a couple of  
> > SCA
> > pulls from an old HP server that I could *never* get to work in my
> > Ultra2.  I know it's not an Ultra1, but they're not all that  
> > different,
> > are they?
>
>  They're *completely* different, but SCA SCSI is SCA SCSI, for the  
> most part.  For what it's worth, HP almost always used HVD drives in  
> their server-class machines...I suspect that was what bit you on the  
> butt.

There are plenty of HVD wide-SCSI SBus cards floating around if you  
want to use the drives anyway. You'd have to put them into an external  
enclosure though, I haven't found a way to hook up the internal SCA  
backplane to an SBus card so far - they use some funky, non-standard  
connector to plug into the mainboard :/

have fun
Michael

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