17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
8:27 a.m.
mike ingram wrote:
I know 140 Gbyte drives and 70 Gbyte drives will work
in Octanes...
although those machines originally shipped with 4G and 9 Gbyte drives
way back there..
Brings back memories - the first pair of SCSI drives I ran "in anger" on a PC
were surplus from an Origin 2k, in about 1998 or so. Those were SGI-supplied
SCA-connector units - one was a 9GB and the other was just over 4 (4.3GB I
think).
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'?
cheers
Jules