[geeks] ATA vs. SCSI

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mark <md.benson at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/06/05 Tue PM 01:27:18 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] ATA vs. SCSI

>On 5 Jun 2007, at 17:03, Dr. Robert Pasken wrote:
>
>> You mean like trying to add a 250gb SATA to a Sun Ultra-20. You'd  
>> think
>> that just plugging in like I did with the fiber channel drive on my
>> Blade 2000 would make it work. I'm still trying to determine why the
>> system doesn't make it past the POST.
>
>I can't be held responsible for Sun distributing machines with jankey  
>firmware/BIOS that only likes certain drives ;)
>
>Based on my (admittedly non-Sun) experience, I've used SATA on Apple,  
>Dell and self-built Asus-based hardware (both AMD/VIA and Intel  
>chipsets) and on all occasions with all drives it's worked flawlessly.
>
>If it were my U20 I'd probably establish what manufacturer of drives  
>Sun uses and use those. They are most likely Seagates or WDs.

I just slid in a Seagate drive in my U20, and it worked fine. IIRC, the  original drive was an 80 Gig Seagate (at least on mine).

Lionel