[comp.sys.sun] adding a SCSI disk drive to a Sun 3/260

tamir@cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir) (09/21/89)

We have a Sun 3/260 with SMD disks and the built-in
cartridge tape drive.
We need to add more disk space -- a  > 600 MB drive.

It seems that these days SCSI drives can deliver
high performance at a much lower cost than SMD drives.

I am looking for info on the following:

1) Is there any reason not to go with SCSI ?

2) Good/bad experiences with specific >600 MB SCSI shoeboxes on Suns.
   Is there anything to watch out for ?
   Sources for low-cost SCSI drives (academic discounts?).

3) The cartridge drive is supposedly SCSI.
   Is there any way to connect to that SCSI bus
   or do we need another SCSI controller.

4) Experiences/tradeoffs of getting the SCSI controller
   from Sun or a third part (e.g. Ciprico).

			   Yuval Tamir

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