From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Subject: Re: Wren7 drives on HP9000/817??
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:19:31 GMT

In article <Busrw7.69y@cup.hp.com> wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone)  
writes:
> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
> : In article <1992Sep9.113017.29711@hparc0.aus.hp.com>,  
davidb@hpuadla.aus.hp.com (David Booth) writes:
> : : I'm amazed you managed to get it to work this much. The s800  
disc driver does
> : : a device ident on the disc on the first-access-after-powerup.  
It then uses
> : : this to learn the section size table from a "precanned" data  
table hard-coded in
> : : the disc driver.
> : : No entry == no disc functionality. 
> : : Naturally HP only insert entries for HP disc drives. Your  
out-of-luck with
> : : your WREN drive on the s800 series.
> : : 
> : 
> : Let me make sure I'm getting this right.
> : 
> : You're saying that on 8XX machines running 8.XX that third party  
SCSI
> : drives cannot be connected to the SCSI bus.  Is that correct?
> 
> The text cited from a previous poster is not entirely correct.   
There is
> an generic entry in the table for the unsupported use of third  
party
> drives.  Furthermore the limitations are with respect to  
partitioning
> the disk--not with basic access to the disk.
> 
> : If this is the case, is it changing in 9.XX?
> 
> As of 9.0 you can partition a disk using LVM rather than using the  
hard
> partition functionality.  Third party disks are still unsupported  
but it
> should become easier to use one.

Yes, but will LVM exist on the 9.0 distribution for the 800 series  
machines?

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