SUN SCSI vs non-SUN?

That's what I thought too and everyone just helped me to validate that. The seller is replacing these and I told him that I felt that the drive's bearings were shot and that the drives don't spin up enough to actuate/initialize. Once he sends me some from another lot I should have a nice full server with 6 9.1's and 4 4.3's... => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks => Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 5:07 PM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: RE: SUN SCSI vs non-SUN? => => => => --- Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman(a)kih.net> wrote: => > That's basically what I was wanting to validate - I got 4 Sun badged => > Seagate ST19171WC drives... I wanted to make sure thet Sun => > din't have Seagate make them different to be of a proprietary => nature. The => > place I got them from is going to ship 4 different ones on Monday. => => AFAIK, while a Sun drive may have a drive ident string that mentions => "Sun" in one way or another (like the Seagate ST1488s that tell you they => are SUN424 drives), it's only important for ancient Sun formatting => software to figure out how to slice and dice the drives. Back in those => days, you had to have a proper entry in the "format.dat" file, and a => lot of effort went into maintaining those if you chose to buy non-Sun => drives (I went through it trying to put Sun0S 4.1.x on my first SPARC1 => when I got a 1.8GB Quantum). I think the reason the old formatter => needed a format.dat file was all the SCSI bridge cards that would => not return enough info from an IDENT command (ACB-4000, etc). => => With Solaris and its formatting program, if it's a new drive type, => you query the drive and partition it from there. One extra step. => No big deal. => => I do not believe there are any protocol wierdnesses introduced on => purpose. => => -ethan => => => __________________________________________________ => Do You Yahoo!? => Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! => http://auctions.yahoo.com =>