Re: 4 GB drive on a 9401 P03?

["T. Jessica Miller" <tealem@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard,

I hope you do not mind my writing you, but I have a further question on my P03 
that
I have been unable to find the answer to.  Could you help me?

Here's my problem:

I lost one of the two 1GB drives in my P03 and wanted to replace them with just 
one
2GB drive.   I ordered an IBM drive from a vendor (model DFHS S2W), a 68 pin
ultrawide scsi.  I am assuming it should be possible to use this drive alone as 
I
would need to if I had an internal tape installed.  However, I can not get the
drive to be recognized by the system. It keeps coming up failed.

So I tried adding back the old 1GB drive that does still work along with the new
2GB and while both spin up still, I get to DST and find the drive has failed.  
If I
proceed to install the os at this point I get a console failure SRC B0750000.  
It
is just not seeing it.

BTW they are addressed at scsi address 5 and 6.

So my questions are:

1.) Can I have just the 2GB drive installed?
2.) Does this drive need formatting since I got it from a vendor and if so, what
type?
3.) Will it not take two drives of different sizes?

Thanks so much and I apologize if I am intruding.

Jessica (:

rose400@pacbell.net wrote:

> No, the P03 will only support 1.03GB and 1.96GB DASD. Up to 2 drives
> (Base + 1) are supported unless Feature 6335 (Internal 840MB 1/4"
> Cartridge Mini Tape) is installed.
> --
> Richard Rosenbluth
> Rose Information Management Co.
> mailto:rose400@pacbell.net
> -------------------------------
> T. Jessica Miller wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone tried or do you know if a P03 can support this size drive?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jessica (:
> > mailto:millerj@isomedia.com
> >
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