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- From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Using 3rd party disks on DECstation 5000's
- Message-ID: <AJC.92Jul28125417@thendara.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:54:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.154844.29631@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In-Reply-To: jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu's message of 28 Jul 92 15:48:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.154844.29631@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.
- edu (Jeff White) writes:
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- >> We're going to be getting two HP 1.35 Gbyte drives (sorry, don't know
- >> model numbers) for use on 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a. While specific
- >> information about this drive would be nice, I'd like to know in general
- >> how well and compatible 3rd party drives are to work with. One will be
- >> the system drives, which I think complicates things a little. I talked
- >> to a local DEC tech support guy about it, and he said (for this drive) to
- >> hope that the std DEC rz58 disktab entry would work with it.
- >> Any replies would be appreciated.
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- >> Jeff White
- >> jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
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- Jeff,
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- Compatibility of third party drives varies (as you may have noticed from
- posts you've seen). But a pretty good chunk of the products available from
- third parties today can be set up to work as both system and data disks for
- DECstations. You'll find useful information available for anonymous ftp on
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- gatekeeper 16.1.0.2 gatekeeper:pub/DEC/ultrix-disktabs
- gatekeeper:pub/DEC/ultrix-faq.txt
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- If you can post the Model number of the disk drive you're playing with I can
- check and see if anybody has worked with it here.
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- I hope that this helps.
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- Thanx,
- AJ
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