SUMMARY: New disk for XP1000

From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 07:58:57 EDT


The original question is below. I got a detailed answer from
Dr. Tom Blinn which basically said that the only issue here was
power consumption and heat dissipation and that it might or might
not work, but that if that size wasn't supported, I was on my own.

Regards,
Peter

> I have a Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000 (Tru64 Unix v4.0f)
> and need to replace the system disk (the only disk). The Quick Specs
> say that you can use up to an 18GB 10,000 rpm disk with a special fan
> kit. Presumably, this will support up to four such disks.
>
> My question is if I can replace the existing 4.3GB 10,000 rpm system
> disk with only one 36GB 10,000 rpm disk? Will the controller support
> this? I believe that it is KZPBA-CA or KZPCA-AA. (It's Wide Ultra,
> not Wide Ultra2).
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> Peter Stern
> Chemical Physics Department
> Weizmann Institute of Science
> 76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
>
> email: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
> phone: 972-8-9342096
> fax: 972-8-9344123
>



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