From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA01484A for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:33:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #5) id 18X19m-0006dF-00; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:33:14 +0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:33:13 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Nahkola Mikko Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ibm-disk on a hp 735/125 Message-ID: <20030110153313.V26554@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030110124210.GG2160@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> <1042203531.19627.11.camel@linux> <20030110145800.GH2160@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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