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Subject: -33- Can I use a non-SGI hard drive in my SGI workstation?
Date: 6 Nov 1998 00:00:01 CST
The brief answer is, "probably." Randolph J. Herber
<herber@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> writes: Hard drives sold by SGI are tested
by SGI and are therefore known to work. Generally, any SCSI-2 fully
compliant, fast, single-ended disk drive will work on all
SGI systems since the Personal Iris and IRIX 3.2; but there
have been a few exceptions. Some of the cheaper disks and some
intended for the PC (whether IBM or Apple type) might not be
sufficiently compliant to the SCSI-2 standard. Also be aware that
SGI usually will not provide hardware support to drives that were not
purchased through SGI, and may require you to remove those drives
during a hardware diagnosis or repair session.
Several comp.sys.sgi.* contributors have encountered problems with
Seagate Medalist drives. Some of these drives may require patches
which must be installed using an IBM-compatible PC; one author
reported success in using the patches 2160.EXE and PTI_SGI.EXE
in <http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/depot> to fix problems with
his ST52160N.
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