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From: ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD + CDC + Emulex
Message-ID: <2590@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 21:58:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulysses.2590
Posted: Mon May 18 21:58:33 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 06:31:58 EDT
References: <7424@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Summary: one yes vote

In article <7424@brl-adm.ARPA>, rackow@anl-mcs.arpa writes:
> ...
> Short summary first.  Use any drive with a CDC label as a boat anchor only.
> I have had no problems with the Emulex controller.
> 
> Gene Rackow                              ARPA: rackow@anl-mcs.arpa
> Mathematics and Computer Science         Voice: 312-972-7126
> Argonne National Lab
> Argonne Il.  60439

There was a time when I would have agreed with the above, but our
experience over the last year has been the opposite.  We thought we had
a problem with bad blocks appearing on our 9772 drives, but it turned
out to be a bug in the firmware in the Emulex controller.  A new set of
controller PROMs cured the problem.  A year earlier we went through
many 340 mbyte CDC drives on our CCI POWER 6/32; it was agreed by CDC
and CCI that the drives were lemons, and CCI replaced them with a newer
model under our service contract.  The CDC drives on our systems are
now as reliable as any others I have seen.
-- 
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