Brother can you spare a SCSI drive?

[Drew Van Zandt]

I have a few, I think - I'll dig 'em out for you.  I think they're all
4.3 GB, but could be wrong.

--DTVZ

On 5/14/06, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I have system on my home network that is basically
> just cobbled together from skanky old spare parts.
> It's configured with an old 9Gb SCSI drive as the
> system disk and a couple of 120Gb IDE drives as a RAID.
> The SCSI system disk has developed thermal problems where
> it runs perfectly for several hours and then suddenly
> becomes useless until it's shut down and cools off.
>
> The path of least resistance for me is just to swap
> in another SCSI drive, reload Linux and then bring the
> system back into service, which consists primarily of
> serving that RAID to the rest of my network.  So I wonder
> if anybody has an old SCSI drive that I could have for
> free or cheap.  The failing drive is a Seagate ST39140W
> that's been running since ~1999 in various systems.  I
> think the interface is the familiar single-ended 68-pin
> wide SCSI, so I'm looking for basically anything that
> could be swapped into the system in place of that, and
> I think that I don't care about capacity or form factor.
>
> With such big, fast PATA/SATA drives available nowadays
> I'm hoping there's a small retired SCSI drive sitting
> lonesome on somebody's shelf that needs a good home...
>
>
> TIA,
>   --M
>
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