5000/200 and ST41600 problems

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From: Bob Applegate
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 00:00

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Hello...

We've been using a Seagate ST41600N 1.3 GB drive on our 5000/200 running Ultrix
4.3 for about 4 months now.  We've noticed severl problems during that time,
including a ?RST message during power on tests.  The most serious problems were
lots of disk errors logged, and the system will eventually hang because the
drive just stops talking on the SCSI buss.

Apparantly this drive is NOT completely compatible with the 200.  Has anyone
else
managed to find a solution?  If not, is there a list of third party drives that
are known to work with DEC equipment?  I seem to remember something odd about
the 200 which caused it a lot of SCSI problems... our local DEC rep advised us
not to use RZ57s with them!  A last resort would be to find a source of 
inexpensive used DEC drives.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bob

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Bob Applegate, WA2ZZX          Water Wheel Systems
bob@waterw.com                 35A East Main Street, Suite 10
President                      Marlton, NJ  08053

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