daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne) (11/16/89)
We are in the process of working up an order for a bunch of SparcStations
(SS-1's and 330's). We want to put a large SMD disk on one of the 330's,
and what I am looking for is information on how well this sort of
configuration works.
I would like very much to hear from people who have working
configurations.
My interests are:
1. 330's with SMD controllers/drives (ie XY7053 or 753, etc). I am not
sure if I would prefer to use a 9U slot or one of the 6U slots. I
would like to hear from sites which are using either (or both!).
[[Ed's Note: see v8n{172,176,181} -bdg]]
2. Thicknet to thinnet converters. Our building is wired with thinnet,
and the new SPARC's have only thicknet. Ideally I would like something
that plugs into the thicknet port on the SPARC and has thinnet coming
out the other end.
[[Ed's Note: see v8n{180,187} - these are going the other way (thick->thin)
but these two suggestions apply for thin->thick also, I'd imagine. -bdg]]
Dave Gagne.
daveg@ee.ubc.ca
...!ubc-cs!ee.ubc.ca!daveg wcs@ho95c.att.com (William Clare Stewart) (12/10/89)
In article <3101@brazos.Rice.edu> daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne) writes:
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]2. Thicknet to thinnet converters. Our building is wired with thinnet,
] and the new SPARC's have only thicknet. Ideally I would like something
] that plugs into the thicknet port on the SPARC and has thinnet coming
] out the other end.
This direction is easy: There are transceivers with an AUI drop cable on
one side and a thin-cable jack on the media side. We've bought ours from
HP, but Sun also sells them, and probably Cabletron does too. It's almost
always worth getting Cabletron transceivers because the blinking lights
are useful (all REAL computers have blinking lights :-), but they're all
cheap, about the cost of thickwire transceivers.