Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!evan
From: evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: disk drives for Sun
Message-ID: <431@ndcheg.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 16:13:08 GMT
References: <574@auvax.UUCP> <421@ndcheg.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
Lines: 31
Summary: we have 320MB for just over $3K (US)

In article <574@auvax.UUCP>, willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis) writes:
> It looks like I will have $5K Cdn ($4K U.S.) to spend on a
> disk drive for a Sun 3 workstation. Can anyone steer me
> toward a good disk for this price? I would like a formatted
> storage capacity of more than 300 Mbytes if possible.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> 

 OK.  I was going to keep this under wraps until we could use it a little more.
We just rolled our own SCSI disk for a Sun 3/50 using the instructions
so generously provided by Tony Dale in the Sun-Spots newsgroup.  We used
the same parts he used, except that we substituted a Micropolis 1558
for the Micropolis 1355.  This gives us 320 MB of formatted storage.  The total
cost of the project was somewhere between $3000 and $3100 but we did get
an educational discount on the drive and controller board.

Very soon, I'm going to write up exactly what we purchased, where we got it
from, how we put it together, and how we use it.  It will be posted to
Sun-Spots.  I will say that once we did get the parts, the whole thing went together
with just a few hours of work.

	Evan Bauman
	Univ. of Notre Dame
	..!iuvax!ndcheg!evan

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