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Article #3305Re: Capacity of BA123 enclosure
From: Christer Olsson
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 11:04
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 11:04
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In article <2739@shodha.enet.dec.com> alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.130841.18830@etek.chalmers.se>, co@etek.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson) writes:
>>
>
> There is indeed space to hold 5 full height 5.25" things.
> On the panel under the front door there are four places
> to put the ready/write-protect switch for the RD disks.
> I've seen (an unsupported configuration by the way) four
> RD54s and a TK50 in the BA123. Turning the system on was
> an interesting experience for the lurking fear the power
> supplies wouldn't be able to handle the load.
I think the BA123's 460W power supply is capable to handle the load of
the Exabyte (15W) I plan to put in the left cage.
>> Is it possible to put a normal full-height unit into the RX50-hole
>> in left?
>
> I'd only put something in there that didn't use much
> power. If you put a disk check with the vendor to make
> sure nothing happens to it when laying on it's side.
Most 5.25" full height drives needs 25W each. 2 RD54's, 1 Wren VII, 1
TK50 and one Exabyte 8200 shouldn't be more than 110-120 W.
(The machine is a Vaxstation II/GPX)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!etek.chalmers.se!co From: co@etek.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Capacity of BA123 enclosure Message-ID: <1991Mar18.110442.25579@etek.chalmers.se> Date: 18 Mar 91 11:04:42 GMT References: <1991Mar15.130841.18830@etek.chalmers.se> <2739@shodha.enet.dec.com> Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden Lines: 33