kus3@tank.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) (02/20/90)
I need to find a SCSI drive (between 1 and 2.5 Gb) and I'm running into a brick wall: a) the only thing that I've been able to find is the Imprimus-2 line (from Seagate). Are there other alternatives? It already have two internal SCSI drive and a tape drive from Sun, and I seem to have remembered something (at least about the Sparcstation1s) about there being a limit to the number of SCSI devices it can handle (like 5-7 total), so I'd rather have something huge rather than chaining a bunch of smaller ones together. b) has anyone gotten something this large to work? format? Thanks in advance, Bob
jhblank@uunet.uu.net (Joey Blankenship) (02/21/90)
Maxtor makes a 670MB (formatted) drive. This is the largest drive that I know of. I use it regularly and have had no problems.
weber@cg-atla.agfa.com (Jeff Weber) (02/21/90)
In article <11056@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> kus3@tank.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) writes: |Original-posting-by: kus3@tank.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) | |I need to find a SCSI drive (between 1 and 2.5 Gb) and I'm running into a |brick wall: | |a) the only thing that I've been able to find is the Imprimus-2 line (from |Seagate). Are there other alternatives? It already have two internal |SCSI drive and a tape drive from Sun, and I seem to have remembered |something (at least about the Sparcstation1s) about there being a limit to |the number of SCSI devices it can handle (like 5-7 total), so I'd rather |have something huge rather than chaining a bunch of smaller ones together. Micropolis has a 1.2GB 5.25in drive on the market. CDC offers a drive about the same capacity in an 8in formfactor. |b) has anyone gotten something this large to work? format? When it comes to putting strange drives on a Sun, you're on your own. They have a very poor SCSI implimentation that is very difficult to support and their format program is more than a little buggy. All you can do is try it.
dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) (02/22/90)
You are about to descend into what may well become the most majestic can of worms to be opened in SCSI history. One gigabyte is the magic capacity at which SCSI disk drives formatted with 512 byte sectors will overflow the 21 bit disk address field in the traditional six-byte SCSI read/write commands for direct access devices. Many SCSI device drivers will not automatically switch to the ten-byte commands with 32 bit address fields. They will silently truncate ... Have a nice day. Dan Strick, aka dan@bellcore.com or bellcore!dan, (201)829-4624
loki@relay.eu.net (Never Kid A Kidder) (02/23/90)
You might like to try Andataco. I haven't myself, but I saw an ad in SunExpert offering a turnkey 1.3G disk system for $7000. They have an email address (inquire%andataco.uucp@ucsd.edu). Does anyone know what they're like?