serwan@gdzies.tam.nz.il.pw.edu.pl wrote:

> Got old K460, it has 4 2gd drives. I was trying to replace them with
> bigger, 9gb - problem is that system may not see them. I am
> connecting 9gb drive, scsi id is set to 6, do 'sea' and.. see only
> cd and tape drive. When there is old 2gb drive connected, 'sea' is
> able to find this disk also. Does anybody know what may be the
> reason? And what should I do to make 8gb drives 'visible' for the
> system?

Get the right "flavor" of SCSI. The internal discs in the K Class
were Fast-Wide _Differential_ (at the time called FWD, now I think it
is called HVD) devices. The labeling might just say "fast-wide"
because at the time, folks at HP thought that there wouldn't be
anything "fast" and single-ended - give or take, based on cable length
limits at the time) Neither SE nor LVD discs will work as internal
mechs in a K Class. (While the CD and tape drive are "internal" they
are actually SE SCSI (IIRC) but those are the only two internal
SE-SCSI connections on the system - and they are a completely separate
bus from the internal discs)

The 3x5 HSC add-on SCSI adaptor was also FWD. To connect either SE or
LVD (at least those which can step-down to SE) to a K Class you would
need to get one of the old HP-PB SE-SCSI HBAs. Or find a way to put
some of those little converter boards on the discs to make them look
like HVD to the K Class.

rick jones
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