3 Nov
2015
3 Nov
'15
9:40 a.m.
Duh!
In the immortal words of Emily Litella: Never mind.
I keep forgetting that I still have a couple of Proliants, ML370s as it turns
out; not quite the same bay, but probably close enough.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Stein" <mhs.stein at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: SCA drives - any interest?
I have a couple of 6-drive hot swap bays that some of
these drives came out of;
unfortunately I didn't make a note of what systems they came out of but they
look like the bay in this Proliant ML370:
http://techtradepartners.squarespace.com/blog/2011/1/3/we-practice-what-we-…
although this 5500 looks vaguely familiar and there are two of these bays...:
http://tempcomgauper.blog.com/2014/04/06/compaq-proliant-5500-server/
In any case, they interface through a 68-pin SCSI connector and a 6-pin power
connector; by any chance would anyone know where I could find the pinout for
that power connector?
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask; is there a forum where server fans
hang out?
Thanks,
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: SCA drives - any interest?
On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 11/02/2015 08:54 AM, Mike Stein wrote:
I have one or two of those adapters somewhere. Any SCA drives I've used, have
been quite hot, which is why I run them in external enclosures intended for
them. It's rare to find ones that run at less than 7200rpm, most are 10k or
15k.
Zane
In case anyone is looking for the
'caddies' it looks like they're
mostly HP/Compaq, including several dummies; I scrapped more IBM
servers than HP, but to my surprise I only found two IBM units.
The nice thing about SCA drives is that adapters for narrow- or wide-SCSI
are/used to be available. I've run SCA drives with old Power Macintoshes,
for example.
I don't know if it's still true, but high-performance SCA drives do tend to
run pretty hot.
--Chuck