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From: pfh@craycos.com (Peter Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Low Cost IPI-2 Drives?
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.230246.252@craycos.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:02:46 GMT
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> Has anyone seen any sign of lower cost IPI-2 drives that I missed? In
> particular are there any 5.25" IPI-2 drives?

Seagate has one in their current catalog.  I don't know about price
or availability.  It is the ST41201K Elite 1, which is a 1200 Mbyte
(unformatted) 5.25" full-height drive with dual-port IPI-2 interface.

You don't have to have a Sun-4/400 series machine to use IPI disks, by
the way.  We have a Xylogics SV7890 dual-channel controller in a
Sun-4/280S with 12 (soon 16) Seagate two-head-parallel 8" Sabres.  So
far, so good.  (Caution:  the SV7890 doesn't support full IPI cable
length spec.  We had to get an extra set of short cables to stay within
their 50' limitation.)

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