dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer) (09/24/88)
We have a Prime EXL316 (An intel386 box, Prime's first entry into the unix market). It came with a 258Mbyte SCSI hard drive that appears to be an off-the-shelf MaxTor XT3280 (series 4). We would like to add a second disk, but Prime has quoted almost $8,000 for a second drive. I've gotten indicative quotes from a couple of suppliers for 1/3 this price. My question is: Does Prime do anything special to the drives before they distribute them? Can I just buy the MaxTor drive, run fmtdisk and mkvtoc and be ready to mount the partitions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... --dan -- Daniel A. Graifer Franklin Capital Investments uunet!fciva!dag 7900 Westpark Drive, Suite A130 (703)821-3244 McLean, VA 22102
dirk@altger.UUCP (dirk) (09/26/88)
>An intel386 box, Prime's first entry into the unix market. Prime has been selling unix boxes for a long time now. They have a UNIX port for the series 50, a System V for a RISC and many BSD. >My question is: Does Prime do anything >special to the drives before they distribute them? Can I just buy the >MaxTor drive, run fmtdisk and mkvtoc and be ready to mount the partitions? There are currently two drives supported for the EXL, the Maxtor and a 90MB Micropolis. You should lookup in the /usr/include/sys/scsi.h what brand the driver supports. As the SCSI gives no information about the disks size, the driver sends INQUIRY to the disk, to figure out the brand and vendor. This is needed for the fmtdisk or install program. If have been playing around with a Seagate 251 (40MB) with a WD1003-SCS SCSI to ST506 controller. This did not work, but I was able to format the disk by my own program. Well, there is nothing done with the drive, otherwhise they wont meet SCSI. There is just one thing to check, if you use the Micropolis, you have to mount it upside down (turn it 180 degree), due they swapped the SCSI bus. cu, dirk :-) PS: If you've got 700 MB of disk, you should think about a better backup then the tape. There is a 1,2 GB GigaTape driver available, mail me if your are interested.
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (09/28/88)
In article <989@altger.UUCP> dirk@altger.UUCP (dirk) writes: >>An intel386 box, Prime's first entry into the unix market. >Prime has been selling unix boxes for a long time now. They have >a UNIX port for the series 50, a System V for a RISC and many BSD. Prime has a UNIX *emulation* for the Series 50 which runs hosted on Primos. Prime *will* have a UNIX for the Series 50 some time in 1989. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM (rogerk%mips.COM@ames.arc.nasa.gov) Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613