dabay@thor.corp.sgi.com (David Dabay) (06/05/91)
I am looking for information for a customer on these topics: Dual Channelling IPI and/or SMD drives for mirror image backup. Driver and hardware considerations, has anyone done this on and SGI, if so how, etc. The scenario would be two systems talking to the same disk farm and if one system dies then the other would pick it up. In the early eighties Harris/Logicon had a machine(TPS6000) that did this to cdc 300mb smds, so something along that line would help. Driver for the recently announced Kodak 560 optical jukebox, in particular something that would play well with IRIX. If a driver is not available what would be a good estimate of man hours to do one (the scsi side not the rs232 robotics stuff, as the customer feels this is a no-brainer) assuming a reasonable level of driver experience. Any help with this would be appreciated and I will forward all info to the customer in question. If someone prefers dealing direct let me know and I can arrange a hookup. This customer doesn't have access to the net. -- Opinions expressed are mine, not my employers!!! Login name: dabay In real life: David Dabay Mail to dabay goes to dabay@thor.corp.sgi.com KD3PC@K3PZN.md.usa