2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
12:11 p.m.
Yeah...I just recently got an IBM drive that has
absolutely refused to
work on any narrow SCSI bus I've tried it on. It works fine on a
peecee with an LVD SCSI card in it - but it isn't the peecee that I
want to use it on, but rather a SS20. *growl*
I used to think that "SCSI is SCSI is SCSI". I think this is the first
case I've met where a SCSI device doesn't Just Work....
I just dug up the specific message where David Turner mentions this on
comp.os.vms:
You can do this with OLDER UW and U2 Disks U3 Drives
do not like being
bumped down to 8Bit
On many wide drives, you need to diable FW negotiation
(most IBM drives
have this) Compaq used IBM drives in their faster storageworks narrow
canisters with the FW NEgotiation disabled by default
Since I've planned on eventually having to use newer SCSI drives on my
PDP-11's and even my VAXen, this was rather disturbing news.
Zane