disks and HP-9000 systems

[Chris Campbell_10]

I have a B160L (HP 9000/778) with a Fast-Wide Differential SCSI controller.
I'd like to buy a new disk for it, but I have seen some things in various HP
documents that lead me to believe that HP puts their own special firmware on
disks. This leads me to wonder if disks without this firmware will work on my
B160L. I'd like to buy this reasonably-priced Quantum 9.1 GB FWD SCSI drive
(Quantum part no. QM39100AL-SWD) that I've seen and put it in my workstation,
but will it work?

[Mike Seerden_3]

Shouldn't be a problem. I have installed Quantum and Seagate FWD drives on all
sorts of HP systems from HP9000/735's to K370's. Make absolutely sure it is a
Differential drive and not low voltage differential.

[Carl Espejo]

Mike,

I'm trying to refit my HP 735 with the following drive. HP D3583C Fast-Wide SCSI 4.2 gig. Do you know if this will work?

Regards,
Carl

[KapilRaj]

Hi friends,

both will work. It depends on your OS version whether you need a patch to create a filesystem or not.

If you have HPUX 9.X you have to have a disktab entry added / patch.
10. X onwards no probs. just add it

kaps