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From: gary@chpc.utexas.edu (Gary Smith)
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Subject: Re: 3rd party disk/tape on RS/6000?
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Date: 1 May 91 13:57:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.115308.1@atmo1.atmo.arizona.edu>, leuthold@atmo1.atmo.arizona.edu writes:
|> I'm sure this has already been asked, but, I've just begun to read this group.
|> Is it possible to attach 3rd party SCSI disks to a RS/6000? (Model 550)  How
|> about Exabyte 8mm drives?  Thanks and sorry if this has been gone over before.
|> (reply to email if you wish)
|> 
|> Mike Leuthold
|> leuthold@atmo1.atmo.arizona.edu
Mike,
I'm not sure why, but I posted similar questions several times two
months ago and never received any replies.  However, I did determine
that Seagate WREN-7`s were being used quite regularly on RS/6000's
and that IBM's driver software required no modifications for their
use.  I'm looking into the higher performance Seagate Elite-1's now
and will have 6 gigabytes of them here for evaluation soon.  The new
Seagate Elites spin at 5400 RPM, thus average rotational latency of
only 5.6 milliseconds, have a mean seek time of 11.5 milliseconds,
and a transfer rate that varies from 3-4.5 megabytes per second due
to ZBR coding.  Call or send me email for any further details.
-- 
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