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RE: [cobalt-users] Qube2 and 2nd Drive
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Qube2 and 2nd Drive
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Aug 12 10:22:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Jerry Farquhar wrote:
> I decided last night to pull the cover off of one of them and found out that
> they only have one connector on the system board for a hard drive. I know
> on the Raq3/4's that there are 2 separate connectors.
>
> Anyone one know if a standard 2-drive cable like used in a typical PC would
> work or is there something about Cobalt/Sun server that they can only use
> one drive per connector on the system board??
>
They use a standard ide controller, so a two drive cable will work.
You need to use low power disk drives though, look at the wimpy power
supply.
There have been post where people have used two 7200 rpm drives.
You might try posting on the qube users list, run by Jeff L
Don't know about nasraq
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