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Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 11:01:04 EST
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From: mra@fathom.UUCP (Mark R. Abbott)
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Subject: Re: Second try to post Eagle II debate
Summary: Emulex and SI agree
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In article <8701311749.AA29682@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, lotto%lhasa@HUCSC.HARVARD.EDU writes:
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> We also have had many problems. Two out of three died fairly fast.
> The third worked just fine. The latest combination of a rev D0 or
> greater HDA and the Emulex QD-32 prom v2.2 or greater seems to have
> solved the problem. Are any of the crashed drives out there of a D0
> vintage? What controllers were being used? I think we had best try
> to collect some statistics, these beasties are expensive!
> ____________
> 

Our local System Industries and Emulex reps are both recommending NOT purchasing
Super Eagles - too unreliable.  SI plans to drop Super Eagles in the near
future in favor of the new 8" Fujitsu drive.  Both companies gave us bids
which originally included Super Eagles 2 months ago; they both called last
week with revised bids dropping the Super Eagles.  They had bad experiences
with recent (like w/i last month) shipments.