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From: Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 2.2GB + drives for PS/2 80/95
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.005556.4954@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:55:56 GMT
References: <5605@mindlink.bc.ca> <1991Apr29.204632.3135@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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In article <1991Apr29.204632.3135@sbcs.sunysb.edu> jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) writes:
>In article <5605@mindlink.bc.ca> Alykhan_Virani@mindlink.bc.ca (Alykhan Virani) writes:
>>I was hoping somebody on the net would know who sells large SCSI hard drives (
>>2.2 gigabyte or greater) that work on a PS/2 model 80-321 or on the new 95.
>>The largest drive I have seen is 1.02 gigabytes.
>>The system runs on OS/2 1.3 and uses the HPFS filing system.   I cannot use
>>multiple drives becuase I am creating a database that will be about 3 gigabytes
>>in size.  (a database in OS/2 EE cannot span multiple drives).
>>I would also need a controller that supports some form of disk mirroring.
>
>Hmm.  Problem.  The biggest (5.25" form factor, micros) hard disk at the
>moment is 2GB.  You'll have to wait another year or so for 3GB.
>Also, IBM will be bringing out a 1.3 (1.2?)GB 3.5" form factor drive in
>a couple of months.

Core International will sell you SCSI drive arrays for the PS/2 that
support up to 60GB or so. They come in a seperate unit, running up to
3 independant power supplies. It can be configured to do data
striping, different levels of redundancy, mirroring, and so on. They
supply all the utilities to restore a drive from the others if one
fails.

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