davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (05/31/90)
Has anyone ever run Xenix or UNIX on a system with a IDE disk? I can't seem to get an answer from anyone who's done it, and "it should work" from a vendor dosn't fill me with confidence. I'm looking to put together a very low cost UNIX system, in quantity, and if I use an IDE interface I think I can do it for <$3k complete, including software, display, and ethernet. With one per person performance should not be an issue. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) (06/01/90)
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: > > Has anyone ever run Xenix or UNIX on a system with a IDE disk? I can't >seem to get an answer from anyone who's done it, and "it should work" >from a vendor dosn't fill me with confidence. > > I'm looking to put together a very low cost UNIX system, in quantity, >and if I use an IDE interface I think I can do it for <$3k complete, >including software, display, and ethernet. With one per person >performance should not be an issue. A business associate of mine that does Novell and Unix consulting has his personal system running a Conner CP-3104 under Unix. Which implementation, I don't know. The only thing that drives him crazy is the fact the Conner drives are so quiet. I can vouche for IDE working perfectly under Novell Netware. That plus the person I know who is running Unix with IDE should convince you. I am convinced that IDE is 100% compatable with Unix/Xenix. In fact, my next hard drive that I'm allocating a chunk of my bank account towards is a Conner CP-3204. If you use a high end IDE drive, the performance is just as good as ESDI. // JCA /* **--------------------------------------------------------------------------* ** Flames : /dev/null | Small memory model only for ** ARPANET : crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil | Unix? Get the (*bleep*) out ** INTERNET: jca@pnet01.cts.com | of here! ** UUCP : {nosc ucsd hplabs!hd-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca **--------------------------------------------------------------------------* */