RE: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400 disk... $$$$$$

This sounds like yet another "trust me I work for IBM" SE line.  All you
need to do is a low level format.  I would guess he was trying to do you
out of your drives.


James

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   David Gibbs [SMTP:devdmg@silvon-server.uisinc.com]
        Sent:   Saturday, 30 August 1997 3:06
        To:     James Turnbull; MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400
disk... $$$$$$

        On 29 Aug 97 at 13:38, James Turnbull wrote:

        > I have re-used a number of 2 Gb drives from an AS/400 in a
SCSI
        > array in an NT server.  They work fine and seem to be more
reliable
        > than off-the-shelf SCSI drives.

        Back when I was doing the F35 -> 510 upgrade, the SE that was
helping 
        me removed the load-source drives from the F35 and told me that
they 
        could be reformatted and used in a PC... but they needed a
special 
        formatting program (that he had, of course).  He offered to
reformat 
        all 4 of them, if he could keep 2.
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