CDC 9720-1230 Drive (1.2G) : any experience

[Dan Grim]

In article <8904192118.AA01434 at roger>
   mcanally at ctc.contel.com (Todd McAnally) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any experience with the CDC 9720-1230 Disk Drive?  I
>searched the archives and didn't really find anything.

At the University of Delaware we have six 9720-1230s on three separate
file servers.  They work great!  Four are on two Xylogics 753 controllers
and the other two are on a Ciprico 3220 controller (which is not a
bootable controller although newer Ciprico models are bootable by
emulating Xylogics!) We purchased all of the drives and controllers from
Aviv, Inc. in Mass.  (617-933-1165) although there are several other
vendors in the market.  Drives cost around $7,500 each.  Controllers are
around $3,000, I think (it's been awhile!)