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- From: obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh HD on Sun
- Message-ID: <Bs8ov1.4C9@gumby.ocs.com>
- Sender: obi@gumby (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas)
- Reply-To: obi@gumby.ocs.com
- Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
- References: <3167@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Jul30.124401.119431@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:04:13 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Jul30.124401.119431@cs.cmu.edu>, jch+@cs.cmu.edu
- (Jonathan Hardwick) writes:
- > tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes
- > > Has anyone try putting an Macintosh scsi disk drive on a Sun?
- >
- > The Sun3/50 I'm typing this on is running off a Quantum 105Mb drive
- > designed for a Mac. No problems whatsoever. Thank ghod for industry
- > standards...
-
- The Quantum 105MB does work, but not all "Mac" SCSI disks do. I used to
- have a Rodime 100MB hard disk which I took out of an old Mac and used as
- the internal hard disk on a SPARCstation 1+ running 4.0.1. It worked fine
- as a /var/spool partition. But when I went to 4.1.1 and synchronous SCSI,
- I couldn't boot any longer -- I would get a message complaining that the
- disk was not releasing the SCSI bus after some command or the other. I
- never did figure out what the problem was -- I just took it out.
-
- Also I believe Syquest removable cartridge disks don't work unless you
- have a special driver. Certainly the one I have attached to my Mac does
- not work on the Sun (same "not releasing the bus" error at boot).
-
- On the other hand, my DataFrame XP330 (a Micropolis 330MB) disk works
- fine on Suns, and like Jonathan, we have successfully used Mac Quantum
- 105s as well. So before you commit any money, you should probably try out
- the disk you want to buy and make sure the system boots and can label the
- disk with the format program.
-