Tracy 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?

Who is telling you this? Because it is false. You can use your ST15150N
right out of the box. In fact, note it is listed in IODFAULT.PUB.SYS.

>
> 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?
>

You should be good to go without doing anything special. I would check out
the drive(s) with mapper first to make sure they are seen before the
install. (I'm assuming you are planning to replace all your existing
drives?)

Regards,

John Burke

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