Non-Sun SCSI disk drives on a Sun 4/110?

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From: Robert A. Schroeder
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 02:56

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I was planning on adding a Maxtor 760 MB SCSI disk to my 4/110.  However,
I happened upon some information in the "Hardware READ ME FIRST for the
Sun 4/110 Systems" that floored me.  It says: 

	The Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) connector on the Sun
	4100 CPU board installed in your 4/110 system may not adhere
	completely to the SCSI specification.  Pin 26 on the SCSI connector
	may be grounded.  Do NOT use non-Sun SCSI disk drives with any Sun
	4/110 or any 4100 CPU based system.  Use of a SCSI drive not
	purchased from Sun may result in the damage or destruction of the
	disk drive/s.

Is this for real??  I've given my salesman over a week to try to
confirm/deny this statement and have yet to hear from him.  So, I thought
I'd turn to netland for some help on this one.   Please tell me it's a
joke (I've actually already ordered the disk :( ).

Rob Schroeder			...philabs!xermes!rob
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Subject: Non-Sun SCSI disk drives on a Sun 4/110?
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