27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
4:56 a.m.
Keep in mind that the mode page on a DEC-badged RZ
drive is almost
certainly set to wait for a spinup command from the host adapter before
spinning up. If your host adapter gives this command (most workstation-
class controllers do), you don't have a problem. If not, you'll
need to specify your host adapter/platform so that someone can tell
you how to spin the drive up.
On the Mac, you can use FWB Toolkit to spin them up, but you can't boot off
of them. I use it for a couple of 2Gb HP drives I got out of an Auspex.
The thing is the RZ23's are only about a 100Mb apiece, as such it isn't
worth any expense to make use of them, except in anything other than DEC
hardware. In the case of my solution it cost $100-150, and for that you
can get a lot larger normal SCSI hard drive.
In my case it probably cost me a couple hundred about a year ago (software,
external case, and cables), but that got me 4Gb of drives that are faster
than what is in this Power Mac I'm using. They were a large enough size
that it was worth the expense.
I think some drives, includeing the RZ23 have a jumper setting to spin them
up, and some PC controllers might do this for you.
Zane
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