[tech] SCSI harddrives

[David Manchester]

> Hi all,
> 
> What do we need to do to put /home in morwong? Where can we steal some 
> plastic thingies to mount the drives in?

The plastic thingies are "storageworks bricks".
They're proprietary plastic carriers that incorporate wide-SCSI, power
and SCSI ID selection into one connector.
Our resident DEC fiend (you know the one) said that he might be able to
score a couple for us.

> We're also shopping for a new SCSI hard drive. What SCSI connector/types 
> are supported by morwong? We can probably get a new drive wholesale if 
> we know exactly what we want :)

Morwong wants wide drives inside the Storageworks bricks and has a Honda-50
connector at the back, for connection of Narrow devices.
A 9GB Barracuda, like the one I had decided to buy for morwong, is about
$520.
The one I've agreed to buy is $200 & will still be under its 2 year
warranty. It won't be here for a little while, as its coming via COD.

Does the UCC want it, or not?

Cheers
/dave 
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