jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) (05/23/89)
I am looking at getting a 300MB external drive. Among those in the race is SuperMac's. They offer their own partitioning sw for Mac/OS and claim it is compatable with apples partitioning sw for A/UX. I was not overly assured that they know whats what with A/UX from my phone conversation. Any experience out there with this drive? good or bad? Its a Micropilis 18ms 330 MB drive. thanks! apple!jrg John R. Galloway, Jr. contract programmer, San Jose, Ca These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!
geoff@Apple.COM (Geoff Peck) (05/23/89)
In article <31340@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) asks
about 300MB external drives for A/UX.
I recently got to try a CDC Wren Runner, which is 321MB unit with a 10.7ms
seek time. (Yes, 10.7ms -- it's FAST!) From what I can see, this is the
drive you want!
The particular incarnation which I got to use came from MicroNet Technology
(714) 837-6033, and costs $2645 (special Apple pricing). This price includes
a cabinet with room for one additional 1/2-height drive. (You might
want to consider the 45MB SyQuest removeable cartridge for $935.)
MicroNet's supplied software was able to set the drive up for A/UX, albeit
as a twin of the HD80 partitions. Using 'dp', it was only moderately
painful to install an additional 235MB file system to fill the drive up.
Further experimentation with 'dp' would no doubt permit one to partition
the drive as desired.
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Geoff Peck, Apple Computer, Inc., MS60-E, Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 974-3184
geoff@apple.com {sun,nsc}!apple!geoff AppleLink: PECK.G #include <disclaimer.h>kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (05/23/89)
In article <31340@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) writes:
.I am looking at getting a 300MB external drive. Among those in the race
.is SuperMac's. They offer their own partitioning sw for Mac/OS and claim
.it is compatable with apples partitioning sw for A/UX. I was not overly
.assured that they know whats what with A/UX from my phone conversation.
.Any experience out there with this drive? good or bad? Its a Micropilis
.18ms 330 MB drive. thanks!
I beta-tested the Supermac 330 with Manager 4.0, and wrote a document about
how to use dp to clean up the partitions for A/UX. I then installed A/UX 1.1
on one. The installation was straightforward and everything ran.
Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)