sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (03/21/89)
Last week I asked for suggestions on purchasing disks for DN3000's.
The prices we were quoted by Apollo are:
Controller: $800
72 Meg disk: $2000
155 Meg disk: $2800
350 Meg disk: $5200
Here's a summary of the responses I got. Thank you to everyone
who replied. The net is a great resource.
From pha@caen.engin.umich.edu Wed Mar 15 10:21:44 1989
controller - $750 (univ discount from Apollo)
72 meg - don't bother
155 meg - drive is available elsewhere for under $1500, but
you get to put together the cables (trivial,, if you can do a PC)
380 meg - drive avaible for well under $2000 - look around.
760 meg - drive available for around $3500 (from memory), but requires
the new Western Digital disk controller for DN3500, DN4000, DN4500 only.
Look in places like computer shopper for disk prices. We buy ours from
Pioneer Electronics in Plymouth, Michigan.
Paul Anderson
CAEN
From uunet!dbi!morris Thu Mar 16 10:31:23 1989
Steve;
Galaxy Systems which I work for has a number of Subsystems for Apollo & SUN
Workstations. If you could send me your postal address, I be glad to
send you more information. Our APO-380-IN, which is 380Mbytes Maxtor
internal drive with controller for Apollo is $3,500.00.
Regards
Morris
Galaxy Systems Voice 415 341-1856
FAX 415 341-1784
uunet!dbi!morris
From dbfunk@icaen.uiowa.edu Thu Mar 16 23:00:08 1989
Steve,
To add a disk to a diskless DN3000:
Buy the controller from Apollo, you can buy them from other places
but they cost almost the same amount and won't work if they don't
have exactly the correct EPROM on them.
Don't buy the disk from Apollo, you can get them elsewhere for a
much better price. You can buy a Maxtor Ext-4380 (348 Mb) disk for
about $2400 on the open market.
Use the program "/systest/ssr_util/jumper" to find the controller configuration.
You may have to create the bad-spot track on the disk. This can be done
with invol option 7.
We've done this with both DN3k & DN4k with no problems.
Dave Funk
From uiucdcs!uiucuxc!mntgfx!chane Fri Mar 17 22:44:08 1989
From: uiucdcs!uiucuxc!mntgfx!chane (Chane Cullens SPD Engr 526-5267)
The 72 meg drive works in PC's, thus PC trade rags sell it for about $600,
check the make and model then shop for a "PC" disk.