[rescue] Re: "SX19171W" Seagate/EMC drives?

[Robert Novak]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Loomis, Rip wrote:

> I just got around to unpacking a crate of the aforementioned drives,
> as seen on eBay (but listed as ST19171WC drives).  I threw three of
> 
> ISTR previous discussions of these drives, but I'm not sure of the
> details--and there don't seem to be any jumpers to change on these
> drives to make them fully functional.  I'm guessing that they're
> waiting for some special start-up command over the SCSI bus, and the
> best way to fix might be to write new (non-EMC) firmware to them.

These are the SX19171WC drives? I've used them as internal boot disks on
Suns before, with no changes. I'm suspicious of the RSM part of the
equation.

If you can find the 0024 firmware and a scsi firmware writer, that will
probably reduce the variables (and it will also make the drives usable in
a Netapp). 

Do you have another drive enclosure that's pure single-ended non-diff, to
test them in?

Rob

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