From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster@twmaster.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:41:23 -0500 Message-ID: <01c19e7a$57d72200$c6b310ca@powerlite> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] HD for SS20
>Other sizes (18, 36, 52, ...) Might work....
These will work. As Thorsten pointed out Yast is smart enough to warn you
about the boot partition being past 1 GB.
>Don't think that the capacity is the main problem: more the heat they
>produce.
Heat used to be an issue. With modern drives it is not an issue any longer.
Older drives, 1, 2 and some 4 GB got very hot.
>Other point of attention is LVD/HVD: newer drivers use Low Voltage
>Differential scsi-bus interface
All modern LVD drives will either automagically revert to SE or can be
forced to
SE mode via jumper. HVD drives are a rarity in SCA format. They do however
exist.
>I was told you can not mix them with devices (drives, cdrom) with other
>electrical interfaces.
This is correct. Don not mix HVD with LVD or SE. However as stated above,
most LVD drives will do the right thing when put with SE.
>I bought a 36G sca drive from ebay but could not test it: it arrived D.O.A.
> -((
Could not test how? Got a make and model number?
Mike N
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