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Old 01-16-2008, 01:41 PM
Andre
 
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Default Re: EMC Disk in Sun Hardware ?

In article <1105980996.997432.133050@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
oldcomber wrote:

>I have EMC disks which appear to be merely Barracuda 73GB 10K RPM
>disks. Anyone know if I can pull the actual disks from the EMC disk
>caddy and place in a Sun D1000 or 420R. Is the EMC specific code in the
>connector on the caddy or in the drive itself? I'll need to obtain the
>drive specs and create my own format.dat entry to label correctly.


I've got 5 x 50Gb spindles that have EMC vendor strings sitting in a
711. Works. When I got them I had to return one as it had really wierd
geometry amounting to 20Mb of usable capacity.

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Andre.

Email: andre at africa dot purplecow dot org.


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