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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 03:24 AM

We are looking at setting up an old J40 as a development and test
machine and need new disks for it. As we have no budget we are looking
at using generic SCSI disks. Has anyone put generic scsi disks in a
7013 machine with any success? If so, what type of disks are known to
work.

Cheers,

Will

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 03:24 AM

Hi,

Do you want to us internal SCSI disks or external disks, as I remembered
that the supported disks for j40 was 2.2GB or 4.5/9.1GBs with specific IBM
OS fixes, if you have a scsi fastwide card for MCA in your system i.e I
think P/N 93H7896 Enhanced SCSI-2 Differential Fast/Wide Adapter/A and IBM
7204 Model 139 9.1-GB External Disk Drive then I think you may be able to
workout things if you have Oslevel greater then AIX 4.1.5.

Hope this helps.

Riz

"Will" <nerk88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aad463c3.0410041944.2efa0e3f@posting.google.c om...
> We are looking at setting up an old J40 as a development and test
> machine and need new disks for it. As we have no budget we are looking
> at using generic SCSI disks. Has anyone put generic scsi disks in a
> 7013 machine with any success? If so, what type of disks are known to
> work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will

#3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 03:24 AM

Will wrote:
> We are looking at setting up an old J40 as a development and test
> machine and need new disks for it. As we have no budget we are looking
> at using generic SCSI disks. Has anyone put generic scsi disks in a
> 7013 machine with any success? If so, what type of disks are known to
> work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will

If you have a free MCA SCSI adapter (fairly easy to find on ebay), you
can use just about any SCSI disk in an external enclosure (I have 15000
rpm 36G U160 drives working flawlessly). If you do not plan on using
the internal hard drive bays, you may be able to use one of the SCSI
adapters in the machine (IIRC they come with two adapters as standard).

Rakesh

#4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 03:25 AM

Rakesh Vidyadharan <rakesh@rakeshv.org> wrote in message news:<cjugih$tpe$1@news1.tribune.com>...
> Will wrote:
> > We are looking at setting up an old J40 as a development and test
> > machine and need new disks for it. As we have no budget we are looking
> > at using generic SCSI disks. Has anyone put generic scsi disks in a
> > 7013 machine with any success? If so, what type of disks are known to
> > work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Will
>
> If you have a free MCA SCSI adapter (fairly easy to find on ebay), you
> can use just about any SCSI disk in an external enclosure (I have 15000
> rpm 36G U160 drives working flawlessly). If you do not plan on using
> the internal hard drive bays, you may be able to use one of the SCSI
> adapters in the machine (IIRC they come with two adapters as standard).
>
> Rakesh

Thanks, It looks like we will buy a couple of seagate 36GB disks, and
use the internal disk bays.

Cheers,

Will

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