roxanne@hop.toad.com (Roxanne Kumari) (01/12/89)
We are persuing the same question... If you're running Sun OS 4.0 you can
use almost any disk with an embedded SCSI controller.
We're running Sun OS 3.2, which is not as clever... has to be tricked into
thinking that it's talking to an Emulex MD21 controller when you hook up
an embedded SCSI controller disk drive, and then you have to have your
supplier format it just right. Most recommend just adding another shoe
box, around $3000-$3500 for the Sun original, and down to around
$1250-$1500 if you buy either a refurbished Sun box or an independently
assembled unit. There are some ads for such in the Sun Times (now the Sun
Observer) newspaper, and we are persuing some others.
Let's keep in touch on this.
We tried a Jasmine Direct Drive 70, couldn't get it to work right, though
if we'd had Sun OS 4. I think it would have.
We now have on order a unit which is a third party cheap copy of a Sun
Shoebox... with the 4000AS Adaptec controller and a Micropolis 1225 86Meg
drive... let's see if they actually deliver, and for how much...
supposedly in a "few" days.
Roxanne
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!hoptoad!astral!roxanneroxanne@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Roxanne Kumari) (01/16/89)
Well, we got our $950+ Micropolis 1325, 86MB (unformatted) shoebox...
it's cute, quiet, nearly plug&play. Just to make sure, used diag to
(re)label it (mfgr provided it already formatted) did the appropriate
makedev and newfs, and voila:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd2c 64599 37171 20968 64% /u
Model VEN-86-EX
Talk to Morris @
Galaxy Systems
1155 Chess Drive, Building C, Suite E
Foster City, CA
(415)341-1856
FAX (415)341-1784
Roxanne
p.s. Yup, formatting, spare tracks, and inodes brought it down from
"86Megabytes" (no doubt decimal 1,000,000 Megabytes) to
63MegaBytes (hex/binary Meg=1024*1024)
roxanne@astral.uucp (Roxanne Kumari)
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