I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk. I'm
new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive will
fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much once
again.

"opc_admin" <theconsiderate@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk. I'm
> new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
> information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive will
> fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much once
> again.
Most 3.5" LP 68pin SCSI disks should work with no problems. They
certainly have in mine.
There may some issues with drives low level format for other systems.

I've used IBM OEM drives with no problems.

Why you want a 4.3G drive? I'd use something bigger if I was you.

RobH

"RobH" <nospam@nospam-echo-xray-papa-charlie-oscar-november.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bf2t1v$j71$1@titan.btinternet.com>...
> "opc_admin" <theconsiderate@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fc34cdbb.0307151952.67e4b988@posting.google.c om...
> > I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk. I'm
> > new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
> > information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive will
> > fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much once
> > again.
> Most 3.5" LP 68pin SCSI disks should work with no problems. They
> certainly have in mine.
> There may some issues with drives low level format for other systems.
>
> I've used IBM OEM drives with no problems.
>
> Why you want a 4.3G drive? I'd use something bigger if I was you.
>
> RobH


Thanks for the message. I'd like to get 2 4.3G disk, I heard IBM disk
is expensive so 4.3gigs should fit my budget. By the way, do you
recommend me any model for those 3.5 LP 68pin SCSI disks, do you know
anywhere affordable to get those. Thanks so much.

"RobH" <nospam@nospam-echo-xray-papa-charlie-oscar-november.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bf2t1v$j71$1@titan.btinternet.com>...
> "opc_admin" <theconsiderate@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fc34cdbb.0307151952.67e4b988@posting.google.c om...
> > I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk. I'm
> > new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
> > information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive will
> > fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much once
> > again.
> Most 3.5" LP 68pin SCSI disks should work with no problems. They
> certainly have in mine.
> There may some issues with drives low level format for other systems.
>
> I've used IBM OEM drives with no problems.
>
> Why you want a 4.3G drive? I'd use something bigger if I was you.
>
> RobH

Any SCSI drive previously used in a Micro$oft environment needs to be
run through a DOS fdisk removing all the partitions. I've found a low
level format won't even run if there's partition on the disks with
some SCSI controllers.
Do low level format the drive first it's the safest bet. I'd also use
9g drives rather than 4.3g. 4.3 is a bad size unless you select 16mb
PP size if you select something smaller you may not be able to add a
larger drive to the VG in the future.

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> "RobH" <nospam@nospam-echo-xray-papa-charlie-oscar-november.co.uk>
wrote in message news:<bf2t1v$j71$1@titan.btinternet.com>...
> > "opc_admin" <theconsiderate@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:fc34cdbb.0307151952.67e4b988@posting.google.c om...
> > > I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk.
I'm
> > > new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
> > > information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive
will
> > > fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much
once
> > > again.
> > Most 3.5" LP 68pin SCSI disks should work with no problems. They
> > certainly have in mine.
> > There may some issues with drives low level format for other
systems.
> >
> > I've used IBM OEM drives with no problems.
> >
> > Why you want a 4.3G drive? I'd use something bigger if I was you.
> >
> > RobH
>
>
> Thanks for the message. I'd like to get 2 4.3G disk, I heard IBM disk
> is expensive so 4.3gigs should fit my budget.
In my experience IBM SCSI disks are only expensive if you buy the
"proper" drives with the RS6k firmware. Having said that I bought a pair
of proper RS6K SCSI 4.5GB drives on ebay for next to nothing.

> By the way, do you
> recommend me any model for those 3.5 LP 68pin SCSI disks,
Anything from the IBM DDYS-Txxxxx series.
These are the IBM OEM versions of the RS6K drives. They have the same
specs, are produced in the same factory but don't have the RS6K firmware
on them.


> do you know
> anywhere affordable to get those.
Depends what part of the world you're in.
I get most of my stuff on ebay.


>Thanks so much.
You're welcome.

RobH

On 15 Jul 2003 20:52:10 -0700, theconsiderate@yahoo.com (opc_admin)
wrote:

>I have just purchased from ebay a 43p-140 workstion with no disk. I'm
>new with this type of hardware. I would greatly appreciate any
>information as to what type/model of 4.3gig internal IBM drive will
>fit in my workstation. All information is welcome. Thanks so much once
>again.


Visit www.dirtcheapdrives.com and look for their internal scsi LVD
drives. Right now they're selling 18GB drives for about $150 new.

We've been using them for many many years in many machines and they
have all worked just fine. The IBM drives are now sold under the
Hitachi name (IBM sold this division to Hitachi).

Bob