From: Simon Stockman (simon_stockman@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 07:17:44 EST
>Original question:
>
>Does anybody know the difference (if any) between a DS-RZ1EA-VW 18.2GB
>StorageWorks Disk drive and a DS-RZ1EA-SW 18.2GB StorageWorks Disk drive?
>
>I'm told the only difference is that the '-SW' disk drives were sold for
>use
>in an NT environment and that the drives are functionally the same?
Got one response from Tom Blinn as follows:
Sounds plausible. If you really want to know, you'd probably have to
find the product manager for the disks, assuming such a person still
exists. After all, those were probably products of Digital which is
no longer in business, and may have still been sold by Compaq which
is no longer in business, but very probably are not sold any longer
by the new HP.. But seriously, there is probably no difference; to
be somewhat sure, plug them into a system and query the device info
pages with the "scu" utility or the like. Or if you don't care any
longer about the warranty, open the cases and look at the original
vendor data which is probably visible on the drive itself; a lot of
the drives in that era were actually IBM or Seagate or some other
vendor, and they should all be 100% compatible with most systems.
Tom
Regards
Simon
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