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From: tropix!mjs@cs.rochester.edu (Michael J Shon)
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Subject: Can you use SMD disks on a Sun 330?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 18 Sep 89 18:06:29 GMT
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The Sun sparcstation 330 has 5 VME slots (3x9U 2x6U).  The VME slots can
presumably be used for any reasonable VME board, (like a third party
VME/SMD disk controller) but Sun does not offer the 330 in any
configuration with SMD disks.

Why? Is it that their SMD-4 controller is 9U and won't fit?  (why not? the
cpu takes only one 9U slot?)

Is there anything that would  stop me from using someone else's disk
subsystem?  Do you know of any that definitely work on the 330? (I know of
lots of SMD systems, but they might not work).

We are trying to get a SPARC system which for political reasons has to be
<= $30,000 ,but we want to expand it next year into a reasonable server.
SMD disks are preferred for swapping and paging large cpu-intensive jobs.

Any comments are appreciated. Please mail me, as I am (our site is)
way behind in News, so I won't see anything there for a while.
Thanks. If I find out anything useful, I'll summarize.