porttiki@cs.Helsinki.FI (Anssi Porttikivi) (04/26/91)
Hello! May I please ask all concerned people if anyone knows anything about 3rd party hard disks on PS/2 AIX. Problem is: Our student computer shop sold a big (600 Mb) external SCSI disk for AIX use on a PS/2 Model 70. Only to find that PS/2 AIX doesn't support SCSI on Model 70. Then we found that the new version 1.2.1 does the job. But the upgrade costs too much - at least here in Finland. Luckily the customer found some use for the SCSI disk as NFS server on some other machine. But his Model 70 desperately needs more disk space than the internal 60 Mb ESDI. Now we are considering internal Seagate 177 Mb ST120E which requires an extra ESDI controller, eg. Western Digital WD1007V-MC1. It is supposed to work with DOS. But does it work with AIX? Are you sure? I don't know and the local IBM will not tell me... -- Anssi Porttikivi Anssi_Porttikivi@cs.helsinki.fi "I am Gaudeamus Data Oy (Inc.) Vuorikatu 5 Finnished telefax (+358-0-) 13114345 00250 HELSINKI, FINLAND now"
opsrjh@uccvma.ucop.edu (Richard Hintz) (04/27/91)
In article <13433@hydra.Helsinki.FI> porttiki@cs.Helsinki.FI (Anssi Porttikivi) writes: >But his Model 70 desperately needs more disk space than >the internal 60 Mb ESDI. Now we are considering >internal Seagate 177 Mb ST120E which requires an extra >ESDI controller, eg. Western Digital WD1007V-MC1. It >is supposed to work with DOS. Why not get a SCSI adapter for the Model 70? Then you can get a SCSI external disk. I think this is one of those things which is not supported, but works. Richard Hintz opsrjh@uccvma.ucop.edu University of California