Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: SparcStation 330 Questions. Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <3101@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 15 Nov 89 23:45:00 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 27 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Related: v8n172 v8n176 v8n180 v8n181 v8n187 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 199, message 12 of 17 We are in the process of working up an order for a bunch of SparcStations (SS-1's and 330's). We want to put a large SMD disk on one of the 330's, and what I am looking for is information on how well this sort of configuration works. I would like very much to hear from people who have working configurations. My interests are: 1. 330's with SMD controllers/drives (ie XY7053 or 753, etc). I am not sure if I would prefer to use a 9U slot or one of the 6U slots. I would like to hear from sites which are using either (or both!). [[Ed's Note: see v8n{172,176,181} -bdg]] 2. Thicknet to thinnet converters. Our building is wired with thinnet, and the new SPARC's have only thicknet. Ideally I would like something that plugs into the thicknet port on the SPARC and has thinnet coming out the other end. [[Ed's Note: see v8n{180,187} - these are going the other way (thick->thin) but these two suggestions apply for thin->thick also, I'd imagine. -bdg]] Dave Gagne. daveg@ee.ubc.ca ...!ubc-cs!ee.ubc.ca!daveg