[Sunhelp] Hard Disks

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Alberti [mailto:talberti at mediaone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 7:47 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] Hard Disks
> 
> 
> Anyone know if you can plug an Ultra 2 LVD hard drive
> into an Ultra Wide Single Ended controller or will this destroy stuff
> because the the disk is LVD and the controller isn't?
> 
> Apparantly you CAN do this with Adaptec cards and I was
> wondering if the same held true for Sun's SCSI adapters.
> 
> Here's adaptec's answer:
> http://ask.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/tic/solution?11=990427-0088&130
=925239119&14=&2715=&15=&2716=&57=search&58=console&25=6&3=Ultra%202%20+%202
940

I didn't read that, but most current LVD drives have a jumper to put them in
SE mode, so you should be able to hook them to a SE controller.  All the
ones that I've worked with have had such a jumper, YMMV.
	Greg