The SE connection is a FAST SCSI-2 Single Ended connection. The "FW"
connection to which you refer is actually a Fast-Wide Differential SCSI-2
connection. You can only add HVD disk drives to the latter. I have used a
fairly extensive variety of SCSI disk drives in the systems here, and I
like Seagate and IBM drives. The difficulty will be finding HVD disk
drives. These seem to be out of production everywhere as the industry has
definitely gone over to LVD in the UltraSCSI, UltraSCSI2, Ultra160 and
Ultra320 guise. However, you should be able to find these drives on the
open market. I believe the largest HVD drive is 36GB, but I may be wrong.
You can also buy the LVD drives and connect them to your SE SCSI port, but
that would be a waste of high performance hardware, as the interface will
only work at the lowest speed on the chain.
Another idea would be to get an HVD to LVD converter, and such can be found
at www.paralan.com and other sites.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax: (281) 288-7438
denys at hicomp.com www.hicomp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: David Knispel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Adding Storage to my HP3K
To all,
I need to add storage to my HP3000. I started down the route of "adding
more of what I already have" to the system. I've gotten quotes for
"HP3000" disks and they are expensive! It's going to be hard for me to
justify $100 per gig when I can purchase a "PC" drive for $2 per gig.
I've searched through the archives and there seems to be many who put just
standard Seagate or IBM or other SCSI drives on their HP3000 with no
problems.
I've got both SE and FW interfaces on my HP3000 987. Is the FW LVD or HVD?
I have several 36gig LVD drives but I don't know if they'll work on my
HP3K.
Any help would be appreciated...
David Knispel
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Fax: 513-248-2672
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