SUN SCSI vs non-SUN?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Sat Feb 2 13:14:27 2002

That's basically what I was wanting to validate - I got 4 Sun badged Seagte
ST19171WC drives, just like my HP badged Seagate ST19171WCs and they look
alike, etc. I just received them and they are apparently worn out as I get a
ton of viration withthem that makes my Netserver cablinet buzz, and I don't
think they spin tot he full7200 rpm so they never want to got hrough
format/init. They are seen in the controller's BIOS but things just aren't
right so I'm guessing bad spin up rather than conflict of firmware.

basically I've never worked with Suns so 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.

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
=> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:43 PM
=> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> Subject: Re: SUN SCSI vs non-SUN?
=>
=>
=> 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
=>
=> --
=> Dave McGuire
=> St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
=>
=>
Received on Sat Feb 02 2002 - 13:14:27 GMT