On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:02:17PM -0400, Richard P. Welty wrote: > Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:14:54AM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: > >>Will a U320 drive fall back to the U160 bandwidth? I'm finding > >>conflicting advice on google, some say no problem, other say I'll kill > >>the U320 in short order, not seeing any hints in the man pages. > > >To the best of my knowledge U320 drives should work fine negotiated > >down to U160. Or not work at all because they can't do non-PPR > >negotiation. > > i have U320 drives working fine with U160 controllers. > > i have also held in my hand new ibm/hitachi U320 SCA > drives clearly labeled "not for use with U160 controllers". > i did not attempt to use them, instead i returned them for > credit and got other drives.
That's malarkey. It'll work just fine. > > richard
