b2wild@ucscb.ucsc.edu (-b2wild-) (05/07/90)
I just bought one of the Maxtor LXT-200S SCSI drives (200megs, 15ms for only $800 seems like a deal to me). It works fine on my IBM clone (with the SCSI adaptor), but chokes & dies when I tried to format it on a Sun 3/110. I moved my HP97548S SCSI drive from the IBM to the Sun with just the removal of a jumper (parity, I think), and it formatted & built up just fine (with SunOS 4.0.3). I attempted the same steps with the Maxtor (removing the only jumper that is not used for a SCSI address or spin-up). It formatted fine, but when I went to copy the OS onto it, I came up with many scsi bus busy errors, and other errors. Has anyone used these drives on Suns successfully?