At 10:07 PM -0500 10/26/00, Tod McQuillin wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Lee Reynolds wrote:
>
> > [...] If I get a 50 pin generic SCSI-II drive, say from Seagate, and
> > try to install it, will it work?
>
>Yes.  Almost any 50 pin narrow SCSI drive should work.  In some cases,
>however, you will need to use an internal scsi cable with a built-in
>terminator rather than the unterminated cable that's already there -- for
>some reason I have found that setting the jumpers on the disk for
>termination doesn't always work.

I used to say that and it's generally true.  But I also have to say 
that I got an Apple-brand Seagate out of a Quadra 840av which worked 
fine in the Quadra and in a Sun but would not work in a IIcx.

AFAIK the Apple label is only important if you are using a 
non-patched version of HD SC Setup (that didn't come with A/UX).  I 
suggest you not worry about Apple vice Generic drives.  If you have a 
problem it's probably termination and you can hit that either way.


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