etk@ittvax.UUCP (Ed Keegan) (05/24/83)
We are considering the purchase of equipment from Systems Industries. Specifically, three 9751 414Mb disks (Fujitsu Eagle), a 9900 controller, and an SBI Interface. This purchase is in lieu of a similar configuration from DEC: three RA81 456Mb disks and a UDA50 controller (neither of which DEC seems to be able to deliver). My questions are: 1) Comments on experiences dealing with Systems Industries. 2) Quality, performance, etc. of the 9751 disks and 9900 controller. 3) Ditto above on the SBI Interface. 4) Service on the above. Any and all comments, suggestions, horror stories, recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Ed Keegan (ittvax!etk)
berry@fortune.UUCP (06/22/83)
#R:ittvax:-74700:fortune:11600017:000:855 fortune!berry Jun 21 13:51:00 1983 When we were using the 9900 (I believe that is the correct number, anyway) with CDC9766's and a DG Eclipse S/140, they seemed great when they worked but heaven help you when they weren't, which seemed to be a sizeable portion of the time. Among other board problems we had were: 1. Random writes (header, data, whatever else) on read commands, this one was never fixed alghough they sent the board back to us "repaired" 3 times. The worst part about this one was it only happened about once every 30 hours or so, ie. after all the diagnostics have been run and the system is back operational again. 2. Numerous drive confusion troubles, (was that drive 0 or 1?) Dealing with SI over the phone was a royal pain, but once we finely managed to get hold of the right people (VP in marketing) we were able to get an FE to come out with new boards.