I recently acquired a couple of 146 GB Seagate FC drives marked
with a "FCV" suffix, and with in large print on the label "12V ONLY".
(Full designation -- "ST3146807FCV")

These do not work in my Sun Fire 280R (where I am already using
two of the same drives except for the 'V' tag on the suffix.

They also don't work in an external FC housing -- Criiterion/EMC
-- which works fine with the 36 GB drives which came with it (in use as
a ZFS array) or with the 9GB drives which came in its companion -- but I
can't see paying the power costs to run 1.6" 9GB drives these days. :-)

Does anyone know what I would need to run these drives -- or
what modifications I might need in the drive cage for either the Sun
Fire 280R or a Sun Blade 1000 (I'm using both here)?

I don't really expect anyone to know what to do to the
Criiterion/DMC housing to make it accept such drives -- but if anyone
does know, that information would be welcome, too.

Thanks,
DoN.

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