1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) (09/06/90)
I've been carefully archiving posts on sources for 3rd-party SGI- compatible memory, but have not been as alert about reports on sources for SGI-compatible disks. Can anybody out there recommend reliable and/or cheap vendors for such drives? Our immediate needs are for 5.25" 760Mb-1.2Gb SCSI add-on external drives with housing/power and cabling, but if a certain grant comes through we might be looking at faster SMD- or ISI- type drives. I'll try to summarize responses back to the net in form similar to memory summarys that crop up frequently. I've been slapping raw drives in VAXes (and PDP-11s in the dark ages) for a good long time now, but I are Unix-illiterate and would really be grateful for either a true plug&play solution or drives that come with instructions suitable for an ape. Since SG's disk prices (with academic discounts) are only about 1.5 times the market, we'll probably wind up buying our IRIS boxes with a built-in SGI system disk. But I'd really rather not pay extra for drives 2,...,N. Our immediate need for this information stems from the fact that we may need to encumber funds and start a bid process for drives 2 to 4 months before the money shows up for the IRISes. But I have access to some running 4D/25s that I could use to test and torture external SCSI drives in the interim. Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
mmcneill@kandinsky.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Michael Mcneill -Visualization) (09/07/90)
Here's a list of SCSI disk vendors that may be helpful. Note: This list is provided purely as a service. I don't have affiliations with any of these companies. =========================================================================== Apunix Computer Services (619) 484-0074 Simon Meth American Computers & Engineers (213) 820-8998 Andataco Computer Perhipherals (800) 334-9191 Peter Bille Artecon (619) 931-5500 ext 135 Stacey A. Wildenberg Arkay Engineering Sales (216) 836-8497 Richard Kuhar Cita Technologies (216) 524-8735 David Thompson Computer Upgrade Corporation (714) 630-3457 Robert J Allen Cranel (800) 288-3475 James M. Huffman Danford Corporation (213) 514-9334 Scott M. Johnson Delta Microsystems, Inc. (415) 449-6881 General Microsystems Inc. (206) 644-2233 Earl W. Overstreet Helios Systems (408) 432-0292 Interscience Computer Corp. (818) 707-2000 Miran Apikian Mar-Con Associates Inc. (708) 675-6450 Sue Hyosaka MDB Systems, Inc. (714) 998-6900 National Peripherals (312) 325-4151 Ken Been North Central Peripherals (612) 881-2302 Ken Nickell Parity Systems (408) 378-1000 Solflower Computer Inc (408) 452-5780 Janet Doan Unison Information Systems (508) 898-0072 ===========================================================================