[Info-vax] DEC Disk Naming - differences between DS-RZ1DB-VW and DS-RZ1DF-VW

[Peter Weaver]

We recently had a disk failure in one of our AlphaServers we replaced a disk with one from inventory and had our hardware support shipped us a new disk. The failed disk was a DS-RZ1DB-VW but the one shipped to us was a DS-RZ1DF-VW. Since we are using Host-Based shadowing on an older version of VMS I want to make sure the new disk is exactly the same as the old before we have to use it. So far every web page I hit describe both as "9.1GB 7200RPM USCSI."

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the DS-RZ1DB-VW and DS-RZ1DF-VW drives? Will they happily co-exists in a HBS on V7.3-1?

Thanks,

Peter