HP disk on SGI Power Series or PI

Mark Bradakis mjb%hoosier.utah.edu at cs.utah.edu
Thu Mar 29 07:32:43 AEST 1990


In article <9003201748.AA13587 at snow-white.merit-tech.com> goss at SNOW-WHITE.MERIT-TECH.COM (Mike Goss) writes:
>Anyone out there tried to hook up a Hewlett-Packard SCSI disk (in
>particular, model # HP 97548-S) to an SGI machine (especially a Power
>Series or PI)?

We tried it, it didn't work.  It seems there is some disagreement between
SGI's implementation of SCSI and what the HP disk assumes.  Plus SGI, like
many other vendors, will not spend a lot of time trying to get someone else's
stuff working on their machines.

mjb.


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