Compatibility
The IBM SIT Lab tests Ultrastar drives for compatibility with a wide variety of systems, controller cards,
and operating systems. Testing was done to demonstrate compatibility with the following hardware and
software. Other combinations of hardware and software may function with this drive, but were not tested.
IBM storage products
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Systems
Acer AP53A
Apple Performa 6400/180
AS400 9406 520
Compaq Deskpro 6000
Compaq Deskpro 2000
Compaq Professional Workstation
6000
Compaq Proliant 1500
Data General
Dell Dimension XPS D300
Dell OptiPlex Gxa 266MTbr
Dell Power Edge 4100
Digital Alpha Server 800 5/333
Digital Alpha Server 4100
Digital VAX 4000
EMC
Gateway 2000 P6-200
Gateway G6-200
HP Netserver LXPro
HP Kayak GM
HP 9000/712
IBM RS6000 E20
IBM RS6000 F50
IBM Intellistation Z-Pro
Micron ClientPro XLU
Micron Millenia MME
Micron Powerdign XSU
NEC Direction SPL 266
NEC Power mate Enterprise
SNI Primergy 460
SGI Octane
SGI Onyx2
SGI 02
Sun Sparc Station 20
Tyan P5-166 Motherboard
SCSI Controllers
Adaptec AAA-131
Adaptec AAA-133
Adaptec AIC-7880
Adaptec ARO
Adaptec 2940UW
Adaptec 2940U2W
Adaptec Power Domain 2940U2W
Adaptec 3940W
Adaptec 3950U2BAdaptec 7880
Adaptec AHA-7890
Adaptec AIC-7880
Adaptec Power Domain
AHA-3940UW v3
AMI MegaRaid 428
AMI MegaRaid 438
Buslogic BT-956
Compaq Wide-Ultra SCSI-2
Compaq Wide-Ultra SCSI-3
DG Proprietary
Diamond Fireport 40
DPT 2144UW
DPT 3334UW
EMC 80 Pin Ultra
IBM ServeRAID
IBM ServeRAID II
Mylex AcceleRAID 250
Mylex DAC 960
Mylex DAC1164P
Qlogic QLA1040B
Symbios Logic SYM8951U
SCSI Operating systems
AIX 4.3.2
DEC VMS 6.2
DEC VMS 7.1
HP-UX 10.10
Irix 6.3
Irix 6.4
Irix 64 Rel 6.5
MacOS 7.5.3
MacOS 7.6
MacOS 8.5
MS DOS 6.20
Novell Netware 4.11
OS2/Warp V.4.20
RedHat Linux 5.2
SCO Unix 3.2.4.2
SCO OpenServer 5.0.2
SCO Unixware 2.1.1
SCO Unixware 2.1.2
Sun OS 5.5.1
Sun Solaris 2.6
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0
BIOSs
AlphaBios 5.64 971212.1414
AMI 1.00.02.DT05
AMI 1.00.11.CD0L
AMI 1.00.13.CD0
AMI 1.00.04.CS1T
AMI 1.00.08CSIT
AMI Ver 2 24/8/95
Award 4.51PG
Compaq 686V 9/28/97
Compaq 586M 11/18/97
Compaq Professional Workstation
6000 BIOS 5/5/97
Compaq E12 4/5/96
Galaxy
IBM Sure Path 1/24/97
Phoenix 1.10 A04
Phoenix 4.0, Release 5.12
Phoenix 4.0, Release 6
Pheonix 4.04
Phoenix 4.05 1.01.92
Phoenix 4.05 A03
Phoenix 4.05 A06
SGI 6.4 2/5/97