[Gllug] disk problems

[Nix]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, John Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:11:45AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>> 
>> Nix writes:
>> 
>>>              Jan 2006: oops, Suns are SCA: get another disk
>> 
>> Of course, an SCA to PC SCSI converter can be had for under a tenner
>> (I have several).
> 
> But probably won't fit in a Sun caddy, as they often plug the 
> drive into an SCA backplane.

I *like* the SCA backplane.

I *like* the idea of the drive tray things.

I *don't* like the way they used said trays as an excuse to play the
modern version of connector-conspiracy so they could continue to charge
~20 times the going rate for their crappy disks. (Those Sun disks were
only four years old when they died. That's just not very good at all.)

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