>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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Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 11:56:50 BST