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From: bob@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Lanfranco Albani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 3rd party SCSI disc's for a 400t
Keywords: SCSI disc, 400t
Message-ID: <528@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 3 Dec 90 13:08:11 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.230644.4918@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> <130@bwilab3.UUCP>
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jr@bwilab3.UUCP (Eugene W Coleman) writes:

>In article <1990Nov27.230644.4918@scion.CS.ORST.EDU>, curt@oce.orst.edu (Curt Vandetta) writes:
>> I'm wondering if anyone has a good source for 3rd Party SCSI disc's for
>> an HP 9000/400t. 
>> Also I would like to hear from people that have added, "unsupported"
>> disks to HP 9000s, I'm not exactly sure what I'm setting myself up for.
>	The best way to get a compatible SCSI drive is select one that
>	is listed in the '/etc/disktab'. Usually the very last drives listed


Not only the drives in /etc/disktab.
We try to add a pair of Maxtor SCSI to a bunch of 400t we own.
First we try with the XT-4380S.  But it was a total failure.
I suspect the drive is fault (no time to test... :-( ).
Then the XT-8760S, the that boy run fine.

Here is my /etc/disktab entry:

maxtor8|maxtor8_xt8000:\
	:40 Mbytes swap:ns#27:nt#15:nc#1512:\
	:s0#612360:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
	:se#512:rm#3600:

How you can see we add another 40 Mb swap area.
Curiously, S.A.M. refuse to complete the ADD HARD DISK procedure.
I'm sure to have inserted the proper entries in /etc/disktab and
/etc/master, but SAM don't agree...
Anyway the Maxtor drive run fine and quick:
IOSTONE reports 9400 for the internal drive and 11600 for the Maxtor.

WARNING: be sure to set the SCSI number for the external drive to 5!!!

Hope this help...

Bye
			Lanfranco


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