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Article #630470 Mbyte shoebox fix
From: William R. Pearson
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 03:26
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 03:26
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I have a 70 Mbyte sun shoebox (the micropolis + Adaptec controller) that is getting closer and closer to the end. Every few months it must be reformatted to remove bad sectors, and more and more bad sectors are appearing that I cannot map out. I am familiar with 3rd party SCSI sun drives, and clearly one alternative is to through away the drive in the shoebox and replace it with an new big drive. But I am curious if the Micropolis 141 Mbyte drives are still available at a reasonable price (< $800)? What is involved in coverting the Adaptec from using a 70 Mbyte Micropolis to a 141 Mbyte? Are there other ST506 drives that I should look at that will work with this controller? Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 70 Mbyte shoebox fix Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1041@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 4 Jan 91 03:26:31 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 2, message 9 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu