Re: [s-d] Re: State of Extreme Emergency

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> Quoting "Peter Cooper Jr." <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I guess we'll let you and Joel fight it out or something. :)
> 
> Nah, if Joel wants it, he's welcome to it.

Ok. I'll see what I can do.
 
> > And nothing else can read the Sun disk format? (I'm not really
> > familiar with Sun at all, so I have no idea...)
> 
> It's not that so much as the fact that the hard drives themselves are of a bi
> t
> odd form-factor. 80-pin SCSI drives.
> 
> For non-techies: Older SCSI drives are normally "68-pin" drives, and have a b
> ig
> ribbon cable that looks just like an IDE cable, only wider, and a separate
> power cable connection. These are 80-pin drives, that have a connector that
> looks kinda a tiny printer cable connector, and they're powered through the
> drive cable too instead of having a separate power cable. They're mainly
> intended for "hot-swap" situations, where you might need to change hard drive
> s
> without powering down the machine first. In this case, I'm guessing Sun built
> them that way to save on cabling, since the hard drives go into a really
> awkward spot and it would be darn near impossible to plug in ribbon cables by
> hand without three or four hands, a good set of tweezers, and a periscope.
> 
> I could buy the right kind of hardware to try and resurrect these drives, but
> it'd all cost me a few hundred bucks that I'm not sure I can spare just now.
> Google did thoughtfully provide a not-too-dated copy of the rules; while the
> proposal histories and changelogs of the rules are possibly gone for the ages
> ,
> it's arguably better than nothing.

I have a friend who might have something that can read those drives, if you're
interested.

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