phil@bashful.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Phil Ritzenthaler) (06/07/89)
> > Date: Fri, 27 May 88 09:32:53 EDT > From: George Young <young@ll-vlsi.arpa> > Subject: 575Mb fuji eagle and 982Mb hitachi on one XY451? > > We are about to order one of the newly sun-supported hitachi 982Mb(?) SMD > disk drives. Does anyone have experience with running one of these next > to a fujitsu super-eagle (575Mb) drive on the same xy451 controller? Or a > super-eagle with any other type drive, for that matter. This will be in > our sun-3/180 server, running SunOS 3.5. Sun "doesn't recommend" mixing > the hitachi with others, but as far as I can discern, its only so they can > sell us a new controller that we don't need. When we were hooking up the Fujitsu 2372k's to our new Xylogics 753 and ran dead into the Xylogics firmware problem ( couldn't put the 753 in with the 451), we jerry-rigged ome of the 2372k's onto the 451. This placed a Hitachi 815-10 and a Fujitsu 2372k on the same Xylogics 451 controller in a 4/280. Everything worked fine (great!), until I tried to move the Fujitsu back to the 753. The defect list got trashed. Boy, did I learn the hard way to make backups of the defect list!!! Conclusion: I saw no problems whatsoever while the Hitachi and the Fujitsu were both located on the 451 controller. Phil Ritzenthaler The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design (ACCAD) Systems Manager The Ohio State University UUCP: ...!{pyramid,killer}!grumpy.cgrg.ohio-state.edu!phil ARPA: phil@grumpy.cgrg.ohio-state.edu
young@ll-vlsi.arpa (George Young) (06/09/89)
We are about to order one of the newly sun-supported hitachi 982Mb(?) SMD disk drives. Does anyone have experience with running one of these next to a fujitsu super-eagle (575Mb) drive on the same xy451 controller? Or a super-eagle with any other type drive, for that matter. This will be in our sun-3/180 server, running SunOS 3.5. Sun "doesn't recommend" mixing the hitachi with others, but as far as I can discern, its only so they can sell us a new controller that we don't need. I hate to buy another xy451 controller when sun will be supporting some as-yet-unidentified fast vme-based controller later this year. (we are committed to hardware supported by sun service). On another topic, I've heard a rumor (from an OEM vendor) that the 8mm video tape (exabyte, and some other brand) drives now being sold as backup media may give way early next year to a cheaper 4mm format. Anyone know about this? George Young, Rm. B-141 young@ll-vlsi.arpa MIT Lincoln Laboratory young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu 244 Wood St. Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 (617) 981-2756
era@era.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (06/17/89)
In article <3620@kalliope.rice.edu> young@ll-vlsi.arpa (George Young) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 9, message 7 of 13 > >On another topic, I've heard a rumor (from an OEM vendor) that the 8mm >video tape (exabyte, and some other brand) drives now being sold as backup >media may give way early next year to a cheaper 4mm format. Anyone know >about this? At least one company (GigaTrend of Carlsbad, CA) is already shipping a product based on 4mm DAT technology. The storage capacity is 1.2GB. It has an SCSI interface. No, you can *not* play your Twisted Sister DAT tapes on these when you are through doing backups. :-) Ed Arnold, NCAR era@ncar.ucar.edu
zjat02@uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley) (06/18/89)
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