[comp.arch] CDC Wrens on Suns

heh@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Harlan E. Husmann) (06/23/87)

I'd like to hear from anyone who has used CDC Wren IIIs on Sun as
local storage.  The specific disk I'm interested in is a Wren III,
182MB, ESDI.  I have the following questions but I'd like to hear from
anyone about their experiences:

1.  Will the Wren III work with Sun's software?  In particular, can
    I format it on the Sun?

2.  If I can't format it, how hard is it to change their software
    (we have a source lic.) and what needs to be changed?

3.  Are their other CDC SCSIs that work in a Sun "as shipped"?

Any help and discussion on this topic will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Harlan Husmann
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apn@nonvon.UUCP (apn) (06/25/87)

in article <2683@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, heh@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Harlan E. Husmann) says:
> 
> I'd like to hear from anyone who has used CDC Wren IIIs on Sun as
> local storage.  The specific disk I'm interested in is a Wren III,

	This is only sorta relevant:
	I have had a WREN on my system for 4 years and it has not had any 
problems... none! I do have a sun , but for implementation specific 
reasons it will assuredly not be like your environment. I do strongly
recommend WREN series CDC drives.

-alex p novickis


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