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From: etnibsd!vsh@uunet.uu.net (Steve Harris)
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Subject: cheap SCSI disks (info wanted)
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 11 Aug 89 13:56:50 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 95, message 10 of 11

We are planning to purchase a bunch of cheap, small SCSI disks to convert
our diskless clients to dataless systems.  We are looking particularly at
the disks sold into the PC and Mac market.

We are currently running 3.4 and 3.5 on 3/110s, 3/50s, and 3/60s.  (We
have several SPARCstations on order, and expect to migrate to the SPARC
architecture over the next year or so).  We are planning to upgrade to
4.0.3 in the near future (we have it running on a couple systems in the
lab, once we are comfortable with it, I will make my own install tape and
load it onto all the systems on our net -- suninstall is sooooo slow!)

I have seen postings from several people who have had (mixed) success with
small SCSI disks, but have had bad luck reaching them via email
(roxanne@astral, ehrhart@sri.com, green@hellcat -- are you out there??)

So, to all you sun-spotters out there:  have you had any experience (good
or bad) with cheapo SCSI disks?  If so, please send me email, addressing
the following questions.  I will summarize, as well as report on our
experiences in this experiment.

Thanks in advance.

Steve Harris -- Eaton Corp. -- Beverly, MA -- uunet!etnibsd!vsh

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	Questionnaire

If you are using "cheapo" disks:

	Under what rev. of SunOS?
	What type of Sun system? (3/xxx, 4/xxx, etc.)
	How did you format the disks?
		(they came formatted; 4.0 format; 3.x diag)
	How are they used (just swap?? tmp?? home directories??)  
	Is the performance acceptable?
	What was the unit cost?  (how many did you buy?)
	Any recommendations?  Problems?

If you decided against using the disks, why?

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