Systems Industries equipment - (nf)

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fortune!berry    Jun 21 13:51:00 1983

	When we were using the 9900 (I believe that is the correct
number, anyway) with CDC9766's and a DG Eclipse S/140, they seemed
great when they worked but heaven help you when they weren't, which
seemed to be a sizeable portion of the time.

	Among other board problems we had were:

	1.  Random writes (header, data, whatever else) on read
commands, this one was never fixed alghough they sent the board back
to us "repaired" 3 times.  The worst part about this one was it
only happened about once every 30 hours or so, ie. after all the
diagnostics have been run and the system is back operational again.

	2.  Numerous drive confusion troubles, (was that drive 0 or 1?)

	Dealing with SI over the phone was a royal pain, but once we
finely managed to get hold of the right people (VP in marketing) we
were able to get an FE to come out with new boards.