Tall hard drives in an Sparcstation 5?

I am trying to put a 1.5" hard drive in my sparcstation 5. The top of
it is hitting the top SCA connector on the SCSI backplane. Is there
another backplane for these with 1 SCA connector, or some way to hack
it in there. Would it be possible to remove the backplane and then
just have a wire connect the hard drive directly to the motherboard?
Let me know if you can think of any solutions. Thanks!
-Adam

> I am trying to put a 1.5" hard drive in my sparcstation 5. The top of
> it is hitting the top SCA connector on the SCSI backplane. Is there
> another backplane for these with 1 SCA connector, or some way to hack
> it in there. Would it be possible to remove the backplane and then
> just have a wire connect the hard drive directly to the motherboard?

It's possible to remove the top SCA connector and carefully snip off all
it's pins. Been there, done that ;-)

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(Adam Barr) writes:
>I am trying to put a 1.5" hard drive in my sparcstation 5. The top of
>it is hitting the top SCA connector on the SCSI backplane. Is there
>another backplane for these with 1 SCA connector, or some way to hack
>it in there. Would it be possible to remove the backplane and then
>just have a wire connect the hard drive directly to the motherboard?
>Let me know if you can think of any solutions. Thanks!

The only solutions are way way harder than just buying another drive
that will fit.

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Doug McIntyre
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.