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From: raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Large cheap disks for AIX 3.1?
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Date: 20 Oct 90 00:38:26 GMT
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Can anyone supply me with the names or vendors and/or disk names which are:

1) Large (on the over of 1Gb or so)
2) Cheap (something fairly reliable also, hopefully)
3) Known to work with AIX 3.1

The last one is the most important so I hear!  I have heard that AIX on the
RS/6000's is rather picky about some aspects of the disk drives the software
understands.  I've been working on an RS/6000 for almost a year now (we got
a "early ship" version), but I haven't tried adding a third party disk to it.

I take for granted that IBM disks are expensive and I've added third party
disks to many, many versions of Unix in the past.  I just have no experience
with AIX on the RS/6000.

Any help at all would be very much appreciated.

Please send responses to me personally and I'll summarize to the net if there
is any demand for it.  Thanks.

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Richard A. Johnson                           raj@topdog.ucsb.edu   (Internet)
NCGIA Computing Resources Manager                  ucbvax!ucivax!raj   (UUCP)
U. C. Santa Barbara               raj@pollux.ncgia.ucsb.edu (via Nameservers)