Seagate ST32430n

[Angela L. Shepherd_1]

I have some seagate st32430n direct access disk drives. Is there a command I can run to see if the drive is fast wide or narrow.

[Darrel Louis]

Angela,

Don't know of any specific commands.

I Always read the specs for the disks.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st32430n.html

There is a sort of naming convention for the Seagate disks.
Within the Model Name you can get the size of the disk + Fast Wide or Not.
Check :

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/discmodelinter.html

[Shannon Petry]

The model type states the bus type for the drive.
ST32430N is a standard narrow connection.
ST#####W is Wide standard ended.
ST#####WD or ST#####D is differential.

Unfurtunatly some of the newer LVD's also use ST#####W.

NOTE: This is only true for seagate drives.

stm can also show you the drive type, size, address and lots of other goodies as long as your budgett can support it. There is a 60 day demo that you can install. Very good package!

Regards,
Shannon

[paul courry]

Also, the second and third digits of the Seagate product number tell you the size of the disk. In this case 24 tells you this is a 2Gb drive (after formatting)

[Nelson Broskey_1]

The ST32430N was a workstation Single Ended SCSI drive sharing the same part number as the ST32420N and C3325A. This older disk had unique firmware for workstation use only. Not supported in multi-user environments. Today you can not trust the suffix of N,WD,WC, etc. as many of these disks have been "converted" via header pca's for use on various buses. It is best to identify the product number to determine what protocol it has been set for. To get the STxxxxx vendor string on UNIX type:
diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx
where cxtxdx is the device file listed in ioscan. hope that helps.