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In <38618C62.E4BF6856@home.com> ntk007 <nagita@home.com> writes:

>Can anyone tell me if a plextor scsi cdrom drive will fit into a sparc
>5/110

>It is a Plextor 12/20 Plex CD-ROM Drive PX-20TSi Tray Load SCSI
>Internal.

>The dimensions (W/H/D) of the drive are ---> 5.78" x 1.64" x 7.95"
>(without front panel)

>On my sparc 5 on the right side towards the front are two removeable
>plates but each plate doesnt look like it it 1.64" high. Do I have to
>remove both plates?
>I have no floppy.

All but the very late production Sparc 5's and 20's had the standard type of
case for these machines (both models use exactly the same case) which is
made to fit a 1" high 2x speed Toshiba XM-4101B CD-ROM drive and a normal
Sun (Sony) floppy drive.

It sounds like your case is one of the more common ones which has a 1" high
blank panel where the CD-ROM drive would sit. There is no way to fit a 1.6"
high (half-height) CD-ROM drive internally in the original version of the
case without leaving the lid off.

>What is the largest harddrive that will fit into a bracket with a part
>number
>of 5402560-03 ?

Largest in physical size or data capacity? Any standard SCA SCSI (80 pin)
drive will work, and current models from drive makers such as IBM run up to
around 20 gig in size, with 4's and 9's being fairly generic now in
non-server applications.

Note that because the Sparc 5 and 20 case is fairly low in height, I usually
don't recommended using anything other than low-profile (1" high) hard
drives to allow for adequate cooling.

Regards,

Craig.
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