----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Taylor via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 5:54 PM Subject: Re: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSI disk caddies (and disks)
> On 7/3/20 3:24 AM, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote: >> Hi! > > Hi, > >> I have a box full of Compaq SCSI server disk caddies (with 9.1G >> disks in them). Feels silly to dump them into e-waste recycling, >> but there probably isn't much point in shipping them very far either >> (I am in Amsterdam). > > /Which/ caddie are they? Can we see a picture of them? Both the front > visible from outside of the system and the connector(s). > > I'm aware of two major families of caddies (near) that time. The older > type with the drive on a sled with a card edge connector, and the newer > type with a frame that clams around the drive (these may have only been > SCA). I believe the older card edge type used 68-pin UW, 50-pin > SCSI-II, and maybe SCA connectors. I think the old card edge type also > came in 1/2 height and 1/3 height. (It might have been the same sled > with different lids. > > I suspect that there may be an interested party or three in the sleds. > Depending on the health of the drives, there may be interested parties > for them too. > > If I needed one of those drives, I'd be willing to pay $1 / GB plus > shipping and handling if they were known to be good. (If I needed them) > I would buy them sight unseen if you ran SpinRite level 2 on the drives > and said they passed. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die ----- I've got a bunch of 18GB SCA drives like this on the other side of the pond (Toronto) and have been meaning for several years now to set up a box to test them; did actually test one with an 80<>68 pin adapter and it worked, but in the meantime seem to have misplaced the system I used... Any interest to make it worth while? m
