The 918LX comes equipped with a spare full-height slot or 2 half-height slots.

Unless you are using one of those slots, as far as I know, there is no
reason why a full-height slot cannot be used to house a FW-SCSI card which
would accomodate your Seagate WC drives.

The difference between the 918LX and 918RX is that the RX offers another
spare pair of half-height (or 1 full-height) slots.

And the "unexpandability" of the LX is precisely why it is an LX and not
the costlier RX.

That's marketing.



At 10:22 PM 2000-02-29 GMT, Paul Thompson wrote:
>I have a number of old HP6000-SX shelves filled with DEC DSP310LSW
>and Seagate ST34573WC drives which were used previously on my HP9000-k420.
>
>I have since upgraded that machine with a Jamaica box and would love to
>use these disks on my 918LX, which has a Seagate ST34573N SE SCSI system
disk.
>I have found that I can't use my old HP-PB 28696-6001 16 Bit DIFF scsi card
>on the 918LX (it works on the 918RX, wouldn't you know...) apparently
>because there is no double high HPPB slot on the 918LX.
>
>Is there any 16 Bit DIFF Scsi card that anyone knows of which works with
>the 918LX?
>
>I suppose that since these were on a differential card there is no way
>to use them on a SE bus. I am a little surprised that HP would create a
>machine as unexpandable as the 918LX, with only two 1/2 size HPPB slots
>and a 8bit SE SCSI bus.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Paul
>
>
>--
>
>
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