Tracy,

I have personally installed non-hp drives on a 3000 with no problems, after all SCSI is SCSI.

That being said, I have been told there is "special" firmware on the HP3000 drives that protect the data in the event of a power failure.

If this is true or not, I do not know.  However, I was told that if I had the drives/system on a UPS, there shouldn't be an issue.

-Craig


Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Gentle listers, two questions...

1) I'm looking at possibly buying a couple of Seagate ST15150N SE SCSI disk
drives, but I'm being told that for MPE to see the drives, they have to be
blessed with an HP part number (maybe meaning HP firmware onboard?), which
more than doubles the price. Can anyone verify or dispute that?

2) Once I set one of those drives' address jumpers and add it to my 957SX's
SCSI cable and declare its path (52.6.0 fregzample) to be the primary boot
path, will an INSTALL take care of any preformatting etc that's needed, or
should I take some unknown preliminary step to make the drive usable?

TIA

Tracy Pierce

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