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May 2003, Week 5

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Re: When SCSI isn't SCSI?
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John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 May 2003 14:58:26 -0700
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Craig said:
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> 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.

This is ancient history. It was referred to as "sector atomicity" I believe
and primarily dates from the classic machine era, though HP was still
manufacturing these drives when the 9x7s were new. HP stopped making disk
drives at the time the 9x8s were introduced.

Any firmware HP adds now is only so the drives work with certain diagnostic
tools.

John

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