16 Oct
2002
16 Oct
'02
10:55 a.m.
At 09:44 AM 10/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
always
The 735/125 is
a nice machine; built like a tank and very reliable.
I have one that I still use regularly. You can use
wide scsi (high-voltage differential) drives with it.
Or narrow SCSI! One of the best 735 features is the 2 SCSI busses, 1 narrow
and 1 wide, and the 2 drive sleds you can get for it. My 735/125 has 2 4GB
seagate drives in it on the narrow bus.
BTW, are you sure the wide bus is HVD? I didn't think it was, as HP is very careful about labeling things like that and
neither the port nor the
terminator that came with it is labeled HVD...but then, I haven't used the
wide bus for anything so I don't know for sure.
Yes, it also has narrow SCSI-2 built-in (though the boot PROM doesn't
understand synch negotiation, so any device that you want to boot
from must not start synchronous negotiation by itself).
And yes, the FWSCSI bus (that's how HP labeled it) in this machine
is high-voltage differential (the only differential scheme at the time;
the LVD drives did not exist back then). I know; I have a micropolis
3243WD and two Seagate ST410800WD in mine.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org