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From: haberhau@az3.ifistg.uucp (Franz Haberhauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Third party disks for DS5400
Message-ID: <1642@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: 23 Feb 90 11:35:59 GMT
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Reply-To: haberhau@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Franz Haberhauer)
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We currently consider buying a DS5400, but the price/performance-ratio
of DEC-supplied disks is out of the question. Therefore we are looking
for third party disks, especially fast SMD-disks.
Has anybody out there (good or bad) experiences with such disks.
How well are they supported by ULTRIX and the installation-scripts?
In SUNland we had little problems with that, is this true for ULTRIX
too?
I have very interesting offers for FUJITSU-disks (2 M2382 with 839MB
each or 1 M2392K with 1.7GB) on an EMULEX QD34 or QD35 controller.
Any comments on these configurations?

Please reply by email, I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,
Franz

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Franz Haberhauer
Institute for Parallel and Distributed High-Performance-Systems (IPVR)
University of Stuttgart   haberhauer@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
West Germany              haberhauer@ipvr.informatik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
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