Third Party Disks for 4D/70GT

[Mark Bradley]

In article <8910250440.aa07989 at SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, XBR2D96D at DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) writes:
> Hallo,
> 
> 1) Should we add the 760MB disk as a second EDSI disk, or should we add it on
>    the SCSI bus build into the 4D? The disk will be used for user data for
>    both the local processor and our NFS based network.

The ESDI version will perform better than our SCSI on your current machine.
(We're making SCSI faster, but it's not there yet on Professional and Power
Series machines.  New Personal Iris' have pretty fast SCSI hardware today.)
> 
> 2) Available disk in the size we are thinking of are the CDC/Imprimis
>    WREN-V700, WREN-VI770 and the Fujuitsu M2263 (and probably others).
>    Has anybody (SGI specialist are highly welcome !!!) experience with this
>    drives (ESDI and SCSI version) that he want to share with me? Does the 3.2
>    fx support any of this drives? How good is fx on "unknown" disk types?
> 
>  I would really like to hear any comments about our plan, EXCLUDED those
> stating that only SGI products are warranted to run on SGI processors. I have
> heard them before, I can see their point, but I cant afford to pay more than
> 100% more for (probably) the same product (here the original SGI cage is
> already counted).
> 
OK, OK, no warnings this time.  3.2 knows about the 2263, the Imprimis
and others.  Personally, I think you would be best getting the Hitachi
780 for performance reasons.

I have actually not used the 'other' feature in fx.  I either create the
correct entry (Having source is nice that way.) or modify one that has
similar parameters simply because it is easier.

But you really should buy it from us..... :{)

						markb


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Mark Bradley				"Faster, faster, until the thrill of
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Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Mountain View, CA 94039-7311		     ---Hunter S. Thompson

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