On 2 Oct 2005, at 08:46, John Niven wrote:
I bought a lot of 9 of these 68 pin and 2.2Gb cheaply.
Then I noticed that they are have a HP logo and part number as
well. D5094-60101
When I went to format and verify them using a Buslogic SCSI PCI
card in a PC I keep for this purpose I find that each returns a
SCSI id number other than "0" which is set by the jumpers. In other
words it seems that the i.d. number has been set in the firmware.
Has anybody seen this before? Is there a way to overide this? Can
the firmware be updated so that the drives behave as normal Vikings
(er... I don't mean the rape and pillage bit :-)
Well, they were cheap, but it turns out also nasty....
This is common practice. I now flatout refuse to buy any Quantum 68-
pin or 80-pin SCSI drives because if they have been near a Compaq,
Dell, IBM or HP server the firmware is always butchered. Look around
for Seagate Cheetah and Seagate Barracuda drives. They are typically
better drives, quieter and Seagate did not allow (to my knowledge)
any firmware blocks that disallow use of the firmware on other machines.
It may be worth checking Maxtor's data sheets for the drives before
you pitch them into a dark corner to see if there are any other ID
setting jumpers on the drive. Most 68-pin drives have them front and
rear.
You'll be lucky if those even show up on a Mac, I have 2 Quantum
Atlas IV drives that don't show up on Classic Mac or Amiga SCSI rigs,
only on PCs or Mac OS X. I also have a Viking and 3 other Atlas
drives that work but won't boot a Mac. I've never seen the locked ID
trick before, just drives that are generally awkward to setup, won't
boot or just don't work full-stop. Oddly I have no issues with them
on OS X machines. I guess OS X looks sufficiently like UNIX to throw
the firmware a curved ball ;o).
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