bob@cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (01/11/89)
We're using about 21-22 of them with Fuji 600Mb 1/2 width 1/2 height drives - one controller per 3/180, two drives per controller. We can fit eight times the storage into the same volume as the old Eagles, and this was a conservative choice of drives. Sorry, I don't recall the Fuji model number on that. We're running SunOS 3.5.1 on most everything. The supplied driver wasn't that great at using the controller's smarts (no command sorting, elevator seeks, stuff like that) but is improving markedly with some attention both here and Xylogics.
dinah@shell.UUCP (Dinah Anderson) (01/16/89)
My understanding is that there is not a diagnostic/format program
available for Sun 4's running 3.x yet. This means you must format and
label the disks on a Sun 3 3.x system and then install them on a Sun 4
system.
We have a Sun 4/280 running 4.0.1 of the Sun OS with a Xylogics 753
connected to a Fuji 2382. This seems to work pretty well. We have not done
any performance test to date, but plan to.
Dinah Anderson
Shell Oil Company, Information Center (713) 795-3287
...!{sun,psuvax,soma,rice,ut-sally,ihnp4}!shell!dinah