17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
8:43 a.m.
On 17/12/2007 16:27, Jules Richardson wrote:
Both were IBM drives, although the drive firmware was
custom so that
they reported themselves as SGI in response to an inquiry command - it
makes me wonder if at least some SGI models check for this and will barf
on drives that they don't think are 'SGI approved'?
I don't think so. O2s and Octanes don't care, and my Origin2000
doesn't. In fact it has a Fujitsu boot disk and a bunch of Seagate drives.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York