Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 (Platform Software Release C.60.00) (30216-90269)

106 Chapter 8

Peripherals

9 GB Disk Drive

by Alex Early

Commercial Systems Division

Overview

The 9 Gigabyte (GB) disk drive has been available since March 1997 as

an embedded disk and as of April 1997 in the mass storage enclosure on

the HP 3000 computer systems. Due to the performance of these disks,

there are special requirements for their use on MPE/iX HP 3000

computer systems. Before installing this disk drive, consider the

following:

1. While the 9 GB disks are supported as an embedded disk, they

cannot be used as LDEV 1 (the boot disk). Therefore, customers

ordering the 9 GB disk as an internal disk must also order a smaller

boot disk such as a 2 GB or 4 GB for the LDEV 1 disk. The 9 GB disk

can then be just another disk in the system domain.

2. Due to a number of differences in technology, the 9 GB disk drive is

only supported on MPE/iX 5.5 and later releases.

Documentation shipped with the disk to help with installation has

information which incorrectly implies that the 9 GB is supported on

MPE/iX 5.0. The patches referenced in the documentation are for

support of the EMC disk array which also uses 9 GB disk drives. The 9

GB disk drive documentation is being changed to state that the current

9 GB disk drive is only supported on MPE/iX 5.5 and later releases.