SUN SCSI vs non-SUN?

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Sat Feb 2 14:44:52 2002

Also, if it came out of a sun, it will be formatted to a 512 byte blocksize....

At 01:14 PM 2/2/02 -0600, you wrote:
>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 - 14:44:52 GMT