awatkins@lager.UVic.CA (Andrew Watkins) (06/13/91)
Hello, We have one Apollo 400t (running Domain 10.3) and we need to purchase a 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive. I want to buy one from a 3rd party but I've got some fear and doubt about not buying an HP product. When I ask these people if their drives will work with the Apollo, they usually reply with "Its a SCSI device, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't". This is not real comforting to me. Does anyone out there have any experience with 3rd party SCSI hard drive? Any recommendations? Thanks alot Andrew Watkins University of Victoria Victoria, BC
thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) (06/14/91)
> We have one Apollo 400t (running Domain 10.3) and we need to purchase a > 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive. I want to buy one from a 3rd party > but I've got some fear and doubt about not buying an HP product. When I > ask these people if their drives will work with the Apollo, they usually > reply with "Its a SCSI device, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't". > This is not real comforting to me. > > Does anyone out there have any experience with 3rd party SCSI hard drive? > Any recommendations? Not (yet) with the 5.25" (external) drives. We're going to be adding some. We have started adding 3.5" internal drives, and have come up against a problem: The Domain/OS invol program doesn't recognize the drive ID for the Seagate 1480NS drive; no problem -- just put in the numbers by hand. Well, it still doesn't like the drive. Apparently (from the Tech Serv Eng at National Peripherals), Domain/OS doesn't like hearing that a disk can handle SCSI-2. It only listens for "I can do SCSI-1" when it queries the disk. National Peripherals is getting the firmware changed so that the disks act brain-damaged and don't do SCSI-2. I'll add more info as soon as I install the new disks and/or get some external 5.25" ones.... -- jt -- John Thompson Honeywell, SSEC Plymouth, MN 55441 thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com When in danger, when in doubt -- run in circles, scream and shout.
tjohn@GUMBY.CFSMO.HONEYWELL.COM ("Tony John") (06/14/91)
> We have one Apollo 400t (running Domain 10.3) and we need to purchase a > 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive. I want to buy one from a 3rd party > but I've got some fear and doubt about not buying an HP product. When I > ask these people if their drives will work with the Apollo, they usually > reply with "Its a SCSI device, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't". > This is not real comforting to me. > > Does anyone out there have any experience with 3rd party SCSI hard drive? > Any recommendations? We've been able to connect 1 gigabyte HP external disk drives from a 3rd party vendor (Datalink) to our 400t's with no problems what so ever. We've even connected Mac SCSI drives to our 400t's. I'm pretty sure that you want to use a SCSI-1 interface because I don't think that the 400t supports SCSI-2. ===================================================================== Tony John Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems 612-785-4256 MN51-1320 8840 Evergreen Blvd. tjohn@gumby.cfsmo.honeywell.com Coon Rapids, MN 55433 When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. -- Mark Twain =====================================================================