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From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: SUN-2/120
Message-ID: <12365@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 02:12:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 02:12:41 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 03:46:38 EDT
Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson
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We're contemplating buying some workstations and we have a couple of
questions about SUNs that we'd like some feedback on from people
with SUN-2/120 systems.

First of all, there seem to be some local qualms about SUN reliability
that have risen from stories from a small number of sites.  So, what
sort of reliability problems have people had with SUN-2/120 systems?
In particular, the early SUN systems seem to have had significant
problems with board failures, and horrific problems with monitor
failures; have these problems been resolved?

Second, we're planning on getting the subset source (SUBSRC) license
for our systems and we were wondering if this proves to be adequate
for the most part or if the omitted sections are often sorely missed.

Also, I've never gotten things quite straight about bad block handling
on the SUN.  It is my understanding that the SMD drives do support
bad block handling, but the SCSI drives do not.  Is this the case?

					Many thanks,
					Bill Mitchell
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