SCSI on the 490????

[katz at rpal.com]

In article <1990Oct7.221004.24766 at rice.edu> chari at iti.org (Chris Whatley) writes:

> Does the SS490 support SCSI hard drives? The answer I get from our sales
> rep is no. This, however, makes no sense to me since there is a 150MB SCSI
> tape drive and a CD ROM drive on the SS490. If these devices exist on the
> 490 then surely a SCSI disk can.

In some sense you asked the wrong question.  Sun uses the word "support"
to mean a configuration which both works and Sun "promises" will continue
working in future releases of the OS.  Sun may not "support" SCSI disks on
the 4/490, but I was able to make one work under OS4.0.3.  What you really
want to do is check with Falcon and find out if their disks will work with
the release of SunOS you are using.  You should also keep in mind that you
could potentially have problems with these drives if you upgrade to a new
release of the OS.

Morry Katz
Rockwell Science Center
administrator at rpal.com (machine administration issues)
katz at rpal.com (other)