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From: danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Adding Disks to DN3000
Summary: Beware of upgrading your own disks
Message-ID: <642@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 21:40:54 GMT
References: <1344@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <1344@brwa.inmos.co.uk>, davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) writes:
> I have a DN3000 with 155 Meg disk. How can I give the machine more
> disk capacity? I'm not too bothered about speed or re-building the
> machine.

We just recently upgraded our 155's to Maxstor 380's on our Mentor
Graphics DN3000's. Unfortunately, there was such a hassle with the
controllers, the maintenance contract etc. that I would be very
careful about doing this again.

It turns out our original controller cards were not of a suffciently
high revision to control the 380's. To make things worse, we bought
disks with 'fast actuators' instead of the regular ones.

The entire system seems to work, but all the people we pay extremely
high maintenance fees to began to treat us as though we had the plague.
(Even though we basically had the OK from them before we started).

After we did it, they said we are now running "an unsupported configuration"
and they might Totally abandon us. The problem is almost sorted out
now but beware!
-- 
Danny Wilson
IDACOM Electronics		danny@idacom.uucp
Edmonton, Alberta		alberta!idacom!danny
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