wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (09/26/89)
I am trying to price a minimal Sun 3/80 system. Buying it all from Sun one pays roughly: Base 3/80 w. 19" BW Monitor $7000 QIC-150 150M tape $1600 104Meg 3-1/2" disk $2200 ea. (up to 2 internally) 327 Meg disk $5600 Media and Manuals $ 600 Now, from what I can tell, the tape drive is the Archive Viper with an embedded SCSI controller. The small disk is the Connor CP-3100 3-1/2" drive, also with embedded SCSI. The bigger disk is the 5 1/4" CDC Wren IV 94171-344 (with SCSI). Has anyone made the "rounds" and found these things for a more reasonable price? (A quick glance at Byte shows the Connor disk for $1000, and an unamed Archive 150M tape for $900, and a Wren 340meg disk for $2800.) Also, while I'm at it, does anyone know if the CDC Wren V 94181-702 works correctly on the above Sun? The recomended partition tables for this disk (under SunOS 4.0.3) only indicate 639k total blocks. (I assume these are 512 byte blocks.) Is there a known problem that prevents one from using the last ~half of the disk? -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang
mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) (09/29/89)
In article <1694@brazos.Rice.edu> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu writes: } X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 135, message 11 of 14 } } I am trying to price a minimal Sun 3/80 system. Buying it all from Sun } one pays roughly: [...] } The bigger disk is the 5 1/4" CDC Wren IV } 94171-344 (with SCSI). Has anyone made the "rounds" and found these } things for a more reasonable price? (A quick glance at Byte shows the } Connor disk for $1000, and an unamed Archive 150M tape for $900, and a } Wren 340meg disk for $2800.) } } Also, while I'm at it, does anyone know if the CDC Wren V 94181-702 works } correctly on the above Sun? The recomended partition tables for this disk } (under SunOS 4.0.3) only indicate 639k total blocks. (I assume these are } 512 byte blocks.) Is there a known problem that prevents one from using } the last ~half of the disk? We use the 702's on 3/50s, 3/60s, 3/260s and SS1's. I think it would be rather safe to assume that it will work on a 3/80. a WrenIV 340 can be purchased from BayState in Cambridge for a lot less than what you quoted above. A WrenV 702 can even be purchased from BayState for less than what you quoted above for the WrenIV 340. Bay-State Computer Group Mike Foley 617-623-3100 mark@DRD.Com (918) 743-3013 Jer. 9:23,24 {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark
harv@herkimer (Harvard Townsend) (10/12/89)
In article <1694@brazos.Rice.edu> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes: ... <rest deleted> >Also, while I'm at it, does anyone know if the CDC Wren V 94181-702 works >correctly on the above Sun? The recomended partition tables for this disk >(under SunOS 4.0.3) only indicate 639k total blocks. (I assume these are >512 byte blocks.) Is there a known problem that prevents one from using >the last ~half of the disk? > >-wolfgang > >Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) >TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang I have a CDC Wren V 94181-702 connected to my 3/80 sitting on my desk. It works fine, providing 613M of formatted space. This is in addition to a single internal 104M we got from Sun with the system. We got the Wren V from BoxHill Systems Corp. Sorry, I don't know the price other then the fact that they were low bidder, and a LOT cheaper than the equivalent from Sun. We simply plugged it in, ran "MAKEDEV sd0", built file systems, and started using it. No trouble at all.