From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Nahkola Mikko <mnahkola@trinms01.ntc.nokia.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ibm-disk on a hp 735/125
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:33:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110153313.V26554@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030110145800.GH2160@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com>; from mnahkola@trinms01.ntc.nokia.com on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:58:00PM +0200
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:58:00PM +0200, Nahkola Mikko wrote:
> Well, yes on both counts. Any HVD disks should be detected... but at the
> time these boxes were made, there were supposed to be certain differences
> between HP and regular disks. Or maybe that was just HP marketing.
>
> At any rate, there _was_ (and still is, BTW) a way to recognize a HP disk
> by the firmware - and there were differences between "workstation" and
> "server" disks too, _and_ IIRC "workstation" disks weren't "expected to
> work" in servers, the other way round it was "expected to work" but "unsupported"
> or something. Don't remember.
That's right. HP (in common with other big-iron hardware vendors) has
custom disk firmware which has certain guarantees which are useful for
real world issues but slow down benchmarks.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-09 16:44 [parisc-linux] ibm-disk on a hp 735/125 Joerg Krebs
2003-01-10 12:42 ` Nahkola Mikko
2003-01-10 12:58 ` Joerg Krebs
2003-01-10 14:58 ` Nahkola Mikko
2003-01-10 15:33 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-01-10 16:01 ` John David Anglin
2003-01-10 19:51 ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-10 15:55 ` John David Anglin
2003-01-10 15:47 ` John David Anglin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-09 15:08 Joerg Krebs
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