pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM (01/05/89)
Has anybody installed and formatted CDC 9720-1230 1.2 Gb disk drives
on their Sequent system?
I am interested in obtaining any modifications made to the files in
the /usr/sys directories neccessary to run zdformat on these drives
successfully, as well as reliability information on these drives.
They are 8 inch drives, which means two will fit in place of a
Fujitsu Eagle, and National Peripheral has quoted me $8,870 for the
complete kit including one drive, mounting tray and cables, which is
about $870 more than I paid for a 690 Mb Fujitsu M2344K swallow-4
last summer.
Patrick Wolfe
System Manager, Kuck and Associates, Inc.
Internet: pat@kai.com
UUCP: {uunet,sequent,uiucuxc}!kailand!patstan@hydra.gatech.EDU (Stan Corbin) (01/05/89)
In article <2400030@kailand> pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM writes: > >Has anybody installed and formatted CDC 9720-1230 1.2 Gb disk drives >on their Sequent system? > >I am interested in obtaining any modifications made to the files in >the /usr/sys directories neccessary to run zdformat on these drives >successfully, as well as reliability information on these drives. > >Patrick Wolfe We just installed four of them, and have four more on order. Once we got our cabling straightened out, they've worked just fine. The formatted capacity is 1.04 Gb which allows a file system of about 988K with the default number of inodes. They've only been running for a few days, so I can't give you any reliability information yet. We obtained the mods to zdformat, etc. from Sequent as a special product, so I don't think I can redistribute them. I suggest you contact your sales rep. -- Stan Corbin stan@prism.gatech.edu Office of Computing Services ...!gatech!prism!stan Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0275