Hi,
could someone point me to where I can find part numbers for supported
disk drives for an
7043-150 model of an rs/6000 system.
Thanks.
S.

make foo.c wrote:
> Hi,
> could someone point me to where I can find part numbers for supported
> disk drives for an
> 7043-150 model of an rs/6000 system.
> Thanks.
> S.


The IBM Redbooks site might help. They have a guide on the pSeries
systems that contains a reference to 7043-150 systems, and the appendix
contains a "Supported peripherals" section.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks...tml/wwhelp.htm

or try this link:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstract...5120.html?Open


If this will help at all, we have an old 7043 here with 1 and 2 GB
drives in it. Here are their part numbers:

1.0 GB SCSI Disk Drive
P/N: 55F9811

16 Bit SCSI Disk Drive (2160 MB)
P/N: 07H1119

>From what I have seen, the 7043 will support external drives up to
18GB...Not sure if anything higher would work.

Regards,

Steve

On 29 Dec 2005 06:46:45 -0800, "steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada"
<steven_nospam@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
>make foo.c wrote:
>> Hi,
>> could someone point me to where I can find part numbers for supported
>> disk drives for an
>> 7043-150 model of an rs/6000 system.
>> Thanks.
>> S.

I've been purchasing IBM/Hitachi 3.5" 10K SCSI HDD's of 18, 36 and
74GB sizes and plugging them right into my 43P-140's and 7046-B50's
and the system has worked with them without issue. It recognizes
them as "Other SCSI Drive" but they work very very well. I have
several 9.1GB hdd's available if you are interested. Make an offer.

Bob

You probably don't need those part numbers. If you don't need a 24x7
you might not need the original IBM disks. I have been using several
different seagate and quantum 9.1 GB SCSI disks on several 43p-1x0 for
years without problems. Works as Other SCSI disk. Two things that come
to my mind: presupposition is that the disks must support spin up on
command. However all the seagates/quantums I use do support this so
probably all disks today do so. Secondly you might need to find out
queue_depth and q_type for reasons of performance. (Try to get
datasheet from the manufacturer).
However keep in mind that 'normal' SCSI disks might not be suitable to
run 24x7 because of recalibration issues. So don't use those disks with
your database production server.