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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: generic smd disks on sun
Message-ID: <17700022@clio>
Date: 9 Nov 88 21:24:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger    Nov  9 15:24:00 1988


We just lost a Fujitsu 2333 disk drive on our Sun 3/260 with
xylogics 450/451 controller.  I want to replace it with a newer,
larger capacity drive.  I can get a good price on the CDC Sabre
series drive (nominally 800 megabytes).  It's a standard SMD
drive, and it looks like it should fit in the pedestal in place
of the Fujitsu drive.  I think I can stretch the cables to the
connectors on the CDC drive.  I'll probably have to rig a
substitute power cable.

Has anybody had experience with this drive on a Sun, and can you
give me some hints on formatting it and getting it running?


			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics, University of Illinois 
			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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