[tech] SCSI harddrives

[David Manchester]

Bugger - two fixes:

> > 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.

I decided this with a little help from Dunc and Yakk, not on my lonesome.

> 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.

FIVE year warranty. I was distracted by a web-page with IDE disks
at the time.
I've send Seagate drives back for warranty returns - they're usually back
in 1-2 weeks, packed nicely & tested.

Cheers
/dave

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