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In <upohdns9x4.fsf@pluton.wmid.amu.edu.pl> Krzysztof Palacz <kappa@pluton.wmid.amu.edu.pl> writes:

>Well, the subject says it all. We've got an LX with an internal drive
>and a "Desktop Storage Pack" and we'd like very much to add a stock
>SCSI drive like Barracuda. Is it doable, are there any gotchas? We'd
>rather avoid buying Sun hardware because their logo is much too
>expensive :-)

Any normal SCSI drive will work. If I build new drives into systems, I
always use Quantum's. I have a Sparc LC (aka Classic) at home and I
recently installed a 3.2 gig Quantum Fireball into it without any
problems. 

The main problem with non-Sun drives is that you need to build a
format.dat entry. Mostly you can probably find one for your drive in John
DiMarco's regular posting of his master format.dat file in
'comp.sys.sun.admin', otherwise you can use something like 'scsiinfo' (a
public domain utility for Sun's with ESP and ISP SCSI) to query the drive
and build a format.dat entry for it automatically. 

Regards,

Craig.
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