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From: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Questions on SCSI device interfacing...
Summary: Mac drives on a Sun? Jasmine says so.
Keywords: SCSI, tape, hard drives, cabling, controllers, cost
Message-ID: <603@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 88 14:49:09 GMT
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Organization: Dep't of Chemical Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame
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In article <1013@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, jacobsen@daniel.its.rpi.edu (Dana Jacobsen) writes:
> Does anyone know if you can run a Mac drive on a Sun?  The Mac
> drives seem to be much less expensive.  Has anyone done this?

I called Jasmine a few days ago with this very question.  They say its no
problem.  Just a matter of knowing some of the physical parameters of the
disk so that you can answer the questions of /sys/diag properly.

Apparently this is possible because the disks these vendors use have an
embedded Emulex MD21 (or lookalike) controller.  The sun knows how to run
one of these.



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