Hi All,

I have a C200 workstation with a 9GB drive. I know I can add another
drive, and that the workstation supports Ultra Wide Single Ended SCSI,
but what type of drive do I need. For example can I add a U320 drive
if it has a 68pin connector. My knowledge of SCSI is limited.

Any help appreciated
Ronnie

> I have a C200 workstation with a 9GB drive. I know I can add another
> drive, and that the workstation supports Ultra Wide Single Ended SCSI,
> but what type of drive do I need. For example can I add a U320 drive
> if it has a 68pin connector. My knowledge of SCSI is limited.
I see 2 conditions:
Same kind of connector and same electrical properties: SE (single ended),
DF (differential) or LVD (low voltage differential).

You can pick up fairly inexpensive Seagate drives on eBay that will work. I
got Seagate drives since that's what was installed originally. I got the
ST318436LW when I bought mine a little more than a year ago. Seagate has a
nice model number interpreter on their web site. For the C200, you want the
first digit to be 3, indicating low form factor and the last characters to
be W or LW. The middle 4 or 5 digits represent the capacity of the drive.


On 4/11/04 2:11 AM, in article c5ar2m$b74$1@titan.btinternet.com, "Ronnie
Doggart" <Ronnie.Doggart@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a C200 workstation with a 9GB drive. I know I can add another
> drive, and that the workstation supports Ultra Wide Single Ended SCSI,
> but what type of drive do I need. For example can I add a U320 drive
> if it has a 68pin connector. My knowledge of SCSI is limited.
>
> Any help appreciated
> Ronnie
>
>

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Sarah Connor wrote:

>> I have a C200 workstation with a 9GB drive. I know I can add another
>> drive, and that the workstation supports Ultra Wide Single Ended SCSI,
>> but what type of drive do I need. For example can I add a U320 drive
>> if it has a 68pin connector. My knowledge of SCSI is limited.
> I see 2 conditions:
> Same kind of connector and same electrical properties: SE (single
> ended), DF (differential) or LVD (low voltage differential).

A new LVD disk will fall back to SE, for backwards compatibilty on SE
busses. Last time I checked at least.

(HVDiff. is a different bus animal completely though.)

jk

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