SGI drive sleds and interfaces?

[Jules Richardson]

mike ingram wrote:
> I know 140 Gbyte drives and 70 Gbyte drives will work in Octanes...   
> although those machines originally shipped with 4G and 9 Gbyte drives 
> way back there..

Brings back memories - the first pair of SCSI drives I ran "in anger" on a PC 
were surplus from an Origin 2k, in about 1998 or so. Those were SGI-supplied 
SCA-connector units - one was a 9GB and the other was just over 4 (4.3GB I 
think).

Both were IBM drives, although the drive firmware was custom so that they 
reported themselves as SGI in response to an inquiry command - it makes me 
wonder if at least some SGI models check for this and will barf on drives that 
they don't think are 'SGI approved'?

cheers

Jules