Thankfully the days of proprietary firmware mods to lock in users to
expensive OEM drives seem to be well in the past.
Bob Marcan gave confirmation that generic IDE drives will work in the DS10L,
with good performance and no major problems reported using WD 120GB on a
single IDE channel.
Graham Allan reports that generic IDE drive sizes up to around 130GB upper
limit are supported by Tru64, and vendors successfully used include WD,
Maxtor, IBM and Seagate.
Jeff Hummel added a reminder to write a boot block on the disklabel if this
is to be the root filesystem.
A caution from Alan Rollow that as with any unqualified part, performance
might be sub-optimal and to perform full testing before making any
assumptions.
Thanks all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Barker
Sent: Tuesday, 06 May, 2003 12:06
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: DS10L and generic IDE disks
Does anyone know if DS10L requires the specific HP "3X-RE58A-BA" 40GB
drive for IDE, or if a generic drive will work?
The HP part is an OEM Maxtor Viper 40GB ATA.
If I use a generic Maxtor 40GB drive, is it likely to work, or do HP
have customisations in the firmware for SRM/Tru64 to use the disk?
HP prices are $300+ and generic parts are $90 !
Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 16:59:00 NZST