Re: Modernizing a 150 - need some documentation

Keith & Larry

Can report on my progress--

1. I seem to need to take the right hand cover only to get at any screws holding the carrier for drive 4 - the top one that is not in the cage.
2. I got the drive 4 carrier out without taking off the control panel - there are some spring-like retainers on top of the control panel, as well as on top of the carrier - they seem intended to catch on the frame - all I did was insert a single-folded piece of paper between the control panel and the carrier - that was enough to get the carrier past the retainers. There was 1 screw on the left, holding the carrier in.
3. The carrier came out nicely - disconnected the SCSI cable and the power plug - 2 screws at the top and the 3rd near the front that holds the retaining slide - a little persuasion with the tip of a flat-blade screwdriver and - ba-da-bing!!!

So thank you for all the help - I know more than I ever wanted about the 150 - but it will be my friend and heater for a while at home!!

Regards
Vern


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From: Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>

Larry Bolhuis wrote:

Aha your clarification agrees with my memory - that the right side cover
does need to come off. I remember having to that but not why!

To get at the screws to the front cover.

While heat can be an issue I have one customer with a 150 still running
happily with four 4GB drives in it for years - they keep it on the floor
in a nice cool computer room. It's used rarely for a few things when
their production system is down for backups etc.

A well cooled room always helps.

Heat varies by component drive model. The DCHS (black w/gold ban) and in
particular the 8gb drive (2/3 height) gets fairly hot.

I tried running a 6717 and 6718 (via a 7128) but the 150 wouldn't even
boot into DST. Maybe a 6714 in a 150 would work. Have you tried this
combo ?


Keith
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