29 Aug
2005
29 Aug
'05
2:58 p.m.
I heard somewhere that even if you are only using one drive, you should
STILL add a dummy drive in the second slot so that airflow is better. I
currently have two 9.1GB drives on my Ultra 2 and Solaris 10 is a pig. I am
planning on using one of my new drives for Solaris and still leave one of
the 9.1GB drives as /export/home. The other drive is going into my PC as a
dual Linux/Solaris installation along side my IDE-based Windows
installation...
Ram
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc at mdrconsult.com]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 2:47 PM
To: General at mdrconsult.com; On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Help! Sun Ultra 1 HD replacement?
listmailgoeshere at gmail.com wrote:
Not necessarily. *Some* Ultra1 systems will accept a 1.6"
disk, but
some won't. That's a physical limitation of the backplane,
rail guides
and SCA connector, not a question of "supported configuration".
On 8/29/05, Ram Meenakshisundaram <RMeenaks at
olf.com> wrote:
>Just grab any 80-pin ultra scsi drive. Just be careful about heat
>dissipation though. I just bought two 73Gb scsi drives for
my Ultra 2
on ebay
for $150. Make sure whatever drive you buy that it is a 1"
height drive otherwise it will NOT fit in the drive cage.
Incorrect. The U1 drive cage will in fact hold a 1.6" drive in the
lower slot. I wouldn't want to run a 1.6" and a
1" together in there for heat
dissipation reasons (they will fit, I've tried, but they
end up *very*
close together), however if the machine only has
one disk in it, a
1.6" in the bottom slot will be fine.
Heat is likely to be an issue with 2 high-RPM disks, even
with a pair
of 1" drives. Air flow is side-to-side, so making sure there's ample
space on both sides of the system helps quite a lot.
Doc