Re: nubie looking for external scsi cd drive for sparc10

According to arthur wouk <awouk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In article <1ef88$43f66cea$48f4e632$30080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DoN. Nichols <dnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ ... ]

: You can connect an *internal* drive in the SS-10. The
:connectors are there. As to which drive will fit in the closed case,

[ ... ]

did you cut a hole in the sparcstation 10 case to have access to the
cdrom? i have had over five sparc 10s, and NONE of them had a cdrom i
it. you are probably thinking of the sparc20.

The SS20 and the SS5 both have provisions for an internal CD
ROM. But, you are right, the SS10 needs an external one. (Or, if you
have only disk drive in the SS10, *maybe* you could get away with
connecting a very short extension between a CD-ROM drive and the
internal SCSI cable -- and putting some insulating material (like
cardboard) on top of the SIMMs and other things to protect them from
shorting into the CD-ROM case.

for the sparc10 you need an external cdrom.

Agreed. I was wrong above.

Thanks for calling my attention to that.
DoN.

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