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From: davis@ADENOSINE.PHARM.UTAH.EDU ("Darrell R. Davis")
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Subject: Re: New drives
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:12:00 GMT
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michael> The bottom line is that it *is* fairly easy to add disks to PI's...
michael>  -Mike Sweet

I have added several drives to PI's and would agree that its fairly
easy.  Just wanted to give an "atta-boy" to SGI in this area.  I
recently added two 1.2 Gbyte drives to a SparcStation and it was not
*nearly* so obvious what to do.  The Sun "format" routine seems quite
primitive and brain-damaged compared to "fx".  The SCSI port
restrictions also seem unnecessary.  Have to use Suns because of
software considerations, alas!



Darrell R. Davis
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Utah