[comp.sys.encore] Third party disks for Multimax?

crr@turing.newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Ritson) (10/12/89)

We have two Encore Multimaxes here, and are in need of more disk space
for  one  of  them.   This  machine  currently has:

        1.4Gbytes of Encore supplied disk, hung off
        2         Encore LDC-01 disk controllers, hung off
        1         EMC-III

We  are  wondering  if anyone has ever used 3rd party disks.  Are they
useable, cheaper, reliable?

Please  send  me your experiences by e-mail.  I will summarize to this
news group.

Thanks in advance..

Chris Ritson.
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C.R.Ritson@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Ritson) (11/20/89)

Some  time ago, I posted a request for information from users of third
party disks on an Encore Multimax.  I received  only  one  substantive
responce:

| From: "Michael J. North" <north@polaris.cs.uiuc.edu>
|
| We have been able to get some Wren V's (SCSI) working on a Multimax 310
| and a 320.  The drive on the 320 must be daisy chained on the 320.
| Had to play around a lot with the logical address of the disk and the
| logical unit address.
| We've had it running for about 2 months now.  No problems to report thus far.

Chris Ritson
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