BYKAT@UTCVM.BITNET (Dr. A.Bykat) (02/10/89)
We have a Sun386i/250 equiped with a 91 Mb disk and a 60Mb cartridge tape in a peripheral box. We have almost exhausted the disk (no surprise) and would like to add a bigger disk (322Mb or even 600Mb). Sun wants $6600 (retail) for a 322Mb disk, but I am sure that we could do much - but much- better than that. If you have added a third party disk to your 386i, please let me know your experience. thoughts recommendations and/or caveats. Thanks! Alex Bykat PS. Even with 35% educational discount, the price seems to me way too high for a disk to be housed in that peripheral box. Acknowledge-To: <BYKAT@UTCVM>
syd@pacbell.pacbell.com (Syd Weinstein) (02/22/89)
In article <8901310553.AA23554@rice.edu> BYKAT@UTCVM.BITNET (Dr. A.Bykat) writes: >We have a Sun386i/250 equiped with a 91 Mb disk and a 60Mb cartridge tape >in a peripheral box. We have almost exhausted the disk (no surprise) and >would like to add a bigger disk (322Mb or even 600Mb). I have just finished adding a Maxstor 8760S (760MB Raw, 650MB formated) disk to my 386i. It went easy enough, so here is what I did. 1. Kludge a mounting bracked for it, as I don't know where to get one 2. Plug in the disk, which I bought from ATS in San Jose 3. edit /etc/format.dat to add the parameters for the disk. 4. run /etc/format, select disk sd0, type it, partition it, label it. I ran into trouble here, the disk is supposed to be 1630,2=1632, but for some reason, after 1615/14/24 it is unreadable, so I backed it off to 1613,2=1615, I loose 6MB, but it works fine. 5. add entries to fstab, make the mount point /files1 6. reboot. It works fine. I am now in the process of trying to make automount points for it. Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 {allegra,bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235