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From: sanjour@cvl.umd.edu (Joe Sanjour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD + CDC + Emulex
Message-ID: <2231@cvl.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 18:51:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 18:51:32 1987
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In article <1686@umd5.umd.edu>, louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> We bought a 9771 for our system (VAX 11/750, EMULEX controller).  It died
> in about 9 months.  The Computer Science Department bought a pair, and they
> didn't have any problems.  That is, until a month or so later.  The first
> one died.  New HDA.  Big $$.  Before the service contract could be put in
> place the second on did too.  More $$.
> 
> Now, we've got a pile of Eagles around here, and they work real fine.  When
> we need disks, we buy Eagles.  They work.  CDC has to do something to
> convince us that their drives, especially the 9771, are reliable.  They
> have a real bad reputation around here.
> 
> This of course represents my views only, and not those of the University
> of Maryland.  

At least not all of the University of maryland :-) We probably are the
only ones on campus who likes the drives.

We have two 9771s (VAX 11/785, EMULEX controller). We have had them
for more then a year and they have give us abosolutly no problems.
Admittedly, we had one that we hadn't installed yet sitting around in
its box when the CSC lost theirs. They borrowed it, only to find it DOA.

Eagles are fine too. We have a few here as well. They have had no problems
for as long as I have been here (> 2 years).

> Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
> University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming

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