[tech] SCSI harddrives

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:52:09AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > 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?

I can't see why not if it's still under warranty - we should talk about 
this at the next committee meeting :)

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Grahame Bowland

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