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Re: When SCSI isn't SCSI?
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Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 May 2003 16:23:29 -0500
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Ditto to what John said.  I would add that you may want to look at getting the Seagate ST318418N (18GB) or St336918N (36GB) instead
of an refurbished ST151150N.  These puppies turn at 7200 RPM, are new manufacture and will plug into your 50 connector.

The 18GB drive can be had for about $150.
The 36.9GB drive can be had for about $220 but may be difficult to find.

Denys

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Burke
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:17 PM
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Subject: Re: When SCSI isn't SCSI?

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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