km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) (12/15/87)
Sun doesn't sell removable media disk drives, but I'm sure there must be third party vendors that do. Can anyone tell me what is available? I susppose the old DEC RMO5 (CDC whatever) will run off the standard SMD controller, but those are really uneconomic to maintain. Surely, there is something better now a days. An optimal solution for us would be a SMD drive that could be run either off a Vax 780 (using an SI controller) or off the Sun's Xylogics. -- Ken Mandelberg | {decvax,sun!sunatl,gatech}!emory!km UUCP Emory University | km@emory BITNET Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.ARPA ARPA,CSNET Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (12/16/87)
The CDC 9766 (the drive that is PART of the RM05) will kill you in maintenance costs. There are more recent CDC removable drives out if that's what you want. I missed the original message, but if it is for security reasons that you want to remove the media, Fujitsu makes a drive that you can slip the HDA out of and lock it up. -Ron