On February 2, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> Here's a question for you SUn people - if I have a HP/Seagate ST19171WC SCA
> hard drive in my server and found some drives that are Sun/Seagate ST19171WC
> SCA drives, is there anything different int he Sun, ie they should work in
> my HP server despite them being made for Sun by Seagate right? Just checking
> and I'm guessing that they are exactly the same just labeled for the OEM by
> Seagate and the firmware showing either HP or Sun when they show up in
> various HD utilities.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help, I'm just making sure I didn't do too much
> acid in the 60's (no wait I was only 13 in 69...that doesn't work)
That whole "standard interfaces" thing makes this easy...just plug
it in and all should be well.
Some vendors (Auspex comes to mind) use custom firmware but I've
never seen it make the drive incompatible with something else that
speaks standard SCSI.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Sat Feb 02 2002 - 12:43:07 GMT