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  3. August 2004

Re: iSeries Disk Drives - Generic?

> Is there something special about the SCSI drives that IBM puts into the
> iSeries.  Specifically, my 730 has the large cages that surround the
> drive. The drives seem to be 80 pin hot-plug drives.
>
> I've played with the idea of taking a cage apart (I have many spare 4GB
> arrays) and putting a larger drive in.  Has anyone attempted anything
> like this?

I've transferred drives between different AS/400 models that had different
mount-styles (e.g., between a 500 and a 40s), but I haven't attermpted to
use a non-IBM drive.

And as I recall, even my Macintosh at home had a problem with a drive
replacement it didn't recognize.

--
JHHL

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