[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[JC]

Thanks for your comment Steven

I decided to order a brand new one from HP Canada
Price is CDN$195 (Strange but HP US$ price is also US$195)
I went for the 5-7 day shipping option as it is free.

I'll post back here with details of how I get on with it
although I am still waiting for delivery of my rx2600
servers which must be coming by "Molasses" Transport
Company. Go figure... It took one day for these servers
to get from the US to Canada, then forever for them to
get to my door (The last 20 miles).

John Cookson


On Mar 23, 3:22 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> JC wrote:
> > Do these servers already include the IDE cable required for connection
> > of
> > the DVD-ROM drive.
>
>    If we read "the IDE cable" as "an IDE cable", then mine
> did, but it's a fancy/unusual cable, with fancy/unusual
> connectors, so I'd guess that you won't have anything to which
> it'll connect.  I gather that the official DVD drive has a
> suitable adapter pasted on.
>
> > I have noticed there seem to be good ebay deals on bare 73gb 15K
> > Fujitsu drives
> > at the moment, so I will be getting some of these I think. Comments on
> > this
> > group seem to indicate that the drive trays included with these
> > servers
> > are OK to work with as I was uncertain if they would fit bare drives
> > properly.
>
>    Ignoring things like capacity, speed, height, power
> dissipation, and reliability, if you've seen one SCA SCSI disk
> drive, you've seen them all.