[rescue] IBM LVD drive in SS20

Robert Novak rnovak at indyramp.com
Fri May 23 22:34:37 CDT 2003


On Fri, 23 May 2003, Geoff Koehler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just rescued a nice 18G IBM LVD drive.  Will this work in a SS20?  I
> notice that one of the jumpers is labelled "force SE".  The hardware
> fits but.......   Any help appreciated.  Thanks

Should work fine. Some Ultras have issues with IBM LVD disks used as boot
disks, which can be solved by jumpering the SE and/or sync negotiation
jumpers. As a second drive, no problems, and on sun4m, I'm not sure. Try
it, and see if you like it.

--Rob



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