I have been told that the ST19171N drive works on the HP 3000.  I am aware
that uncompleted writes may not get written in the event of  power outage,
but on a test system, I do not really care.  After Y2K testing the drive
will be moved to a PC environment.  We have a HP 3000 918 LX.

The question is:  A vendor did not have the ST19171N drive, but guaranteed
that the new ST39173N drive was exactly the same.  It was late in the day
and I wanted to get it shipped ASAP, so I told them to go ahead and ship
it.

Checking Seagate's web site and the specs on the drives, I see that the
number of cylinders, tracks, and sectors are different between the 2
drives.  Is there a chance the ST39173N drive would work on the HP 3000
because the cylinder, track, and sector addressing are handled internally
by the drive itself?

Or does the MPE I/O system know specific things like number of cylinders,
tracks, and sectors for each supported drive, and therefore it would not
work?

I understand that some Quantum drives are supposed to work on the HP 3000
also.  Is there a list of which models of Seagate and Quantum drives can be
used on the HP 3000, and corresponding configuration information for them?

Or, maybe this topic is taboo now, due to HP's recent crackdown.  What if
the drives are added into an external cabinet and connected to the external
SCSI connector of the HP 3000.  Is that legal?

TIA for any help.

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Ron Miller
OpenPlus