Bill wrote:
> "Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<c4u7tc$2mifdb$1@ID-22005.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
>>Bill wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I'll be getting an IBM J30 and one J40 within the next weeks.
>>>>Because these
>>>>machines only have 4GB internal drives I want to replace them with
>>>>something
>>>>bigger. But I need to know what drives are inside the hot swap
>>>>housings? Are
>>>>they HVD or SE, 8Bit or 16Bit?
>>>>
>>>>Benjamin
>>>
>>>They are SE.
>>
>>Good to hear. When I remember right the machines have Differential SCSI
>>controllers, so that means there somehwere is an differential->SE converter
>>inside the machine to allow the use of SE disks?
>>
>>
>>>You'll probably be limited to 9GB internal drives. Best
>>>of luck finding them.
>>
>>Why should there be a limit of 9GB? I have used bigger drives in much older
>>RS/6000 without problems. Or do You mean that IBM doesn't sell bigger drives
>>than 9GB? That shouldn't be a problem, either since I want to replace the
>>4GB disks inside the hot swap housing with a bigger SCSI disk.
>>
>>Benjamin
>
>
> I believe that the statement you made 'You mean that IBM doesn't sell
> bigger drives' is the correct one. I don't think IBM will have drives
> larger than 9GB.
>
> BV
Well, to be more specific, there is no built in SCSI, so it is
determined by the type of card installed. All the beasties I dealt with
were differential, but then that was for a large project which required
multiple servers feed a robot, and the extra distance was deemed
desireable. Can't imagine why one would do differential for just the
internal drives. I could swear there were SE cards available in those
days....