rg@gandp (Dick Gill) (02/04/91)
A client with a 32/650 has just upgraded from a 380MB to a 760MB hard disc. I have the trade in disc and wonder if it might be made to work in my in-house system. The disc is an NCR 380 SCSI (Maxtor XP-4380S) with all original mounting hardware. My in-house system is a Tower-XP upgraded with a PMC-III to a 32/600. It has 4MB of memory, 2xHPSIO(8), a 40MB tape, one 85MB hard disc and one 140MB hard disc. The OS is 2.2.1. Aside from the PMC & OS upgrade, the system is as we bought it many moons ago. I would love to retire the 85MB disc in favor of the 380MB one; if need be, I would scrap both current discs in order to run the larger SCSI drive. I would also love to move up to a 150MB tape, but must retain the 40MB model and floppy drive to support clients. Is this as simple as adding a SCSI controller? Is this an easy task or a difficult one? Thanks for your thoughts. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dick Gill Gill & Piette, Inc. (703)761-1163 ..uunet!gandp!rg
vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause) (02/04/91)
In article <341@gandp> rg@gandp.UUCP (Dick Gill) writes: > >A client with a 32/650 has just upgraded from a 380MB to a 760MB hard >disc. I have the trade in disc and wonder if it might be made to work >in my in-house system. The disc is an NCR 380 SCSI (Maxtor XP-4380S) >with all original mounting hardware. > >My in-house system is a Tower-XP upgraded with a PMC-III to a 32/600. >It has 4MB of memory, 2xHPSIO(8), a 40MB tape, one 85MB hard disc >and one 140MB hard disc. The OS is 2.2.1. Aside from the PMC & OS >upgrade, the system is as we bought it many moons ago. > >I would love to retire the 85MB disc in favor of the 380MB one; >if need be, I would scrap both current discs in order to run the >larger SCSI drive. I would also love to move up to a 150MB tape, >but must retain the 40MB model and floppy drive to support clients. > >Is this as simple as adding a SCSI controller? Is this an easy >task or a difficult one? > >Thanks for your thoughts. Well, looks like the only hardware you will need to add is the internal SCSI controller. For software, you will need to install OS 3.00.02... +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Sam Vause, NCR Corporation, Customer Services - TOWER Support | |3325 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia, SC 29169 (803) 791-6953| | vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM | | ...!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!cs-col!vause | +---------------------------------------------------------------+