On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Edward Henigin wrote:
Thanks for the info. Are you saying that even if we could verify our Compaq ST15150W to be 100% compatible with the Seagate, and we added it to /etc/qual_devices, the filer would still not recognize the hard drive, since /etc/qual_devices is for reference only?
That's not how I read it. It is for reference as well as to add drives like this. The only point that is unclear is what did Tony mean by "invalidate"? Will the filer in fact complain or malfunction directly due to changes to the file or simply will it make it an unsupported configuration. I think Tony made this point purposely vague.
IF you could tell us what those are, and IF the filer would recognize additions to /etc/qual_devices, then I think we can engineer our own solution.
I would be pleasantly surprised to see any vendor do what you request here.
Tom