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From: rad@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Richard A. Dramstad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: you see i got this CI....
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Date: 4 Feb 88 19:39:00 GMT
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In article <20313@felix.UUCP> SYSMSH@ulkyvx.bitnet writes:
>Has anybody done anything with the CI?  I've kept it primarily in the hope
>of future support (I'd love to use our cluster's tape drives) and to help
>out field service (they like vms diagnostics).  We are running 2.0-1.

	At the Anaheim DECUS in December a member of the Ultrix
Engineering Group was supposed to give a talk entitled something like,
"Future Directions in Ultrix Mass Storage."  The talk was cancelled.
An Ultrix product manager (name not revealed to protect the innocent)
confirmed that they had an Ultrix system working off HSC-connected
disks, but the developer was too busy working on the project to
actually discuss it at DECUS.  I don't know if this will mean true
Ultrix clusters (what would that mean anyway?), or if it's just a
technique for getting faster access to RA-series disks for a single
system.  Since we have an 8600 with a DEC-maintained CI (keep those
revs coming!) and will soon have a spare HSC50 as the result of merging
two VMS clusters, I'm excited about the possibility of having anything
faster than the awful Unibus/UDA50 path to our RA81s and RA82s.  I
asked about the possibility of field testing this new capability;
perhaps you should, too.  At any rate, don't throw away that CI...

Dick Dramstad