Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:50:33 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? Message-ID: <199912170250.UAA19007@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:35:16 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912160432150.47916-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Jamie Bowden writes: > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > trying to put a generic SCSI drive into an SGI system several years > > ago. It was a struggle, because they used special mounting brackets > > and a special connector, trying to make it look as if you HAD to > > buy the drive from them at 4X the going price. But it was a plain > > old SCSI drive, and you could tell which brand by looking at the > > mechanical design. > > Sorry Brett, but this is just wrong. SGI uses mounting sleds that only > work in their machines, but so does everyone else. The connectors are all > standard 50pin, 68pin, or SCA. The sleds are available from SGI without the drive. Seems like $225 for an Indigo sled was SGI's price back in 1996. Used SGI resellers sell plenty. And 3rd parties make clones. While SGI's SCSI sleds are nothing exotic, they are often incompatible between various SGI models. And nothing like the box/sled Clariion uses to house their RAID drives. In this case the firmware on the IBM drive is non-standard locking out commodity replacements, and eliminating the salvage value of used Clariion drives for other purposes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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