Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!viusys!uxui!unislc!harem!wes From: wes@harem.clydeunix.com (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Buying UNIX for a clone Summary: Toshiba SCSI drives seem to cause the problem... Message-ID: <264@harem.clydeunix.com> Date: 13 May 91 15:15:21 GMT References: <1991Apr30.173134.11376@nstar.rn.com> <1991May1.222239.16203@unixland.uucp> Organization: Clyde's Harem; Eunuchs Guard Lines: 30 In article <1991May1.222239.16203@unixland.uucp>, bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: > To answer your question, I'm not sure which drive causes the problem. It > seems to be some incompatibility problem between the Toshiba and Maxtor > drives. Someone suggested that these two drives don't implement SCSI > protocol very well, so they wouldn't be happy co-existing. At my last job, we had a bunch of SGI Iris-4D workstations with SCSI drives. We needed to add a lot of disk space to about half the workstations, so we bought a bunch of Seagate/CSC/Imprimus 4766 drives in SGI-style enclosures, 3 to each machine. Half of the workstations were shipped by SGI with Toshiba drives, half with Maxtor. The Seagate drives work fine on the Maxtor equipped workstations, but attempting to add more than one Seagate to any machine with a Toshiba drive results in NONE of the Seagate drives repsonding. SGI's 'fx' disk utility complains of timeouts on the SCSI bus. The same Seagate drives work fine on a machine with a Maxtor drive. Are the Toshiba MK series drives causing this problem somehow? I'm going to buy a 486 machine and Esix Vr4 later this summer and I want to use the Adaptec 1542b with several :-) Seagate 1000 series drives, i.e. 1096N. Can anybody give me reports of their experiences with these devices? Prices on the Seagates seem to be pretty reasonable (read: cheap!) lately. Thanks in advance. Wes Peters -- #include The worst day sailing My opinions, your screen. is much better than Raxco had nothing to do with this! the best day at work. Wes Peters: wes@harem.clydeunix.com ...!sun!unislc!harem!wes