Summary: Third-party FWD 4BG disks for H-P 700 and J series?

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3 total messages Started by Lars Henrik Mathiesen Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:18

#14

Author: Lars Henrik Mathiesen
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:18

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Two weeks ago, I posted the following query:

   Does anybody have positive experience with using a third-party 4GB
   disk on the differential fast/wide SCSI bus on a Hewlett-Packard 735
   workstation running HP-UX 9.05? (We cannot install 10.0 just now.)

   (We tried using a Quantum Grand Prix 4.30 GB drive, but it always goes
   off-line a minute or so after booting. We'd like to get a fix and use
   the drive, of course, but we can write it off if another type is
   better.)

   Email please, I'll summarize.

All respondents had positive experience with Seagate ST15150WD disks,
so we are trying to find someone who will sell them to us. (The Danish
distributor only sells to dealers...) On the other hand, nobody had
tried to use Quantum F/W disks with HP, so I was out of luck there.

Other advice: The SCSI Kernel Megapatch should be installed before
using these drives. Termination is of course important.

It is also possible to buy support for the Seagate drive (and a couple
of others) on HP systems from MDL Corporation in the US.

Thanks to the following for their help:
   Rich Oesterling <ogr@inel.gov>
   Lawrence Lowe <L.S.Lowe@bham.ac.uk>
   Michael Lampi <lampi@mdlcorp.com>

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@diku.dk> (Humour NOT marked)

Re: Summary: Third-party FWD 4BG disks for H-

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Author: JCarr37863
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 21:46

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we have st15150wd in a shoebox with fwd cables, and terminators for $1500
per drive inclusive. includes chassis, formatting, and disktabs.

Powerstar Inc.                                                  SCSI-3,
UPS Technologies
800-209-5556

Re: Summary: Third-party FWD 4BG disks for H-

#16

Author: Doug Siebert
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:06

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jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) writes:

>we have st15150wd in a shoebox with fwd cables, and terminators for $1500
>per drive inclusive. includes chassis, formatting, and disktabs.

If everyone who has something to sell followed up every related posting with
marketing drivel, Usenet would quickly become unusable.  No one asked where
to get these drives, no one from HP, MDL, or the many other vendors that will
sell you this exact drive felt a need to sell stuff as part of this thread.

-- 
Doug Siebert              || "Usenet is essentially Letters to the Editor
University of Iowa        ||  without the editor.  Editors don't appreciate
dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu  ||  this, for some reason."     -- Larry Wall
(c) 1995 Doug Siebert.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.

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