bauman@shell.com (Evan G. Bauman) (12/05/90)
I'd like to know if it is possible to install an IPI controller in a Sun 4/280. We presently have a Xylogics 451 with one 600MB Eagle Drive (the one that Sun used to sell before SMD-4) and a third party Xylogics 753 with 2 Fujitsu 2382 (1GB) drives attached. We boot off of the Eagle. Now we're running out of disk space and hesitate to add more SMD capacity since we can't take SMD drives with us on an upgrade to a new Sun server. A local company has offered to sell us a Xylogics IPI controller and some Seagate IPI drives with the claim that they should work in our 4/280 and co-exist peacefully with our present controllers. He said we could even boot off of the IPI disks. Is this true? Thanks in advance. Evan G. Bauman - Combustion/Reaction Engineering Shell Development Company - Westhollow Research Center PO Box 1380; Houston, TX 77251-1380 bauman@shell.com "The owls are not what they seem"