Which SCSI disk and tape drives for Xenix/UNIX
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
Fri Jun 8 00:18:47 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jun5.113359.26250 at dircon.uucp>, sys0001 at dircon.uucp writes:
> We're looking at SCSI drives (to run with the Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller
> under SCO Xenix 386 GT). We heard that the quality of the Wren series has
> suffered since it has been made by Seagate. Is there any truth in this?
>
> The alternatives we are looking at, are: Micropolis 1684 which is a half-height
> drive with 345 Mbytes after formating, and one of the Maxtor 300Mbyte drives.
>
> Comments about these, or other (better!) drives would be appreciated.
>
> Also, what is the best 150Mbyte SCSI tape drive for the above configuration.
> We are looking for one which will use the standard SCSI drivers built into
> Xenix GT (and SCO UNIX). We have been offered a Cipher CP150. Does this
> work well?
>
> Replies by mail, please, and I'll summarize.
> --
> sys0001 at dircon.UUCP or sys0001%dircon at ukc.ac.uk
I'm using ESIX. The Adaptec works fine. I've got a cheapo Seagate ST296N
running on it currently. I've set up and used a Conner CP3200 on it and it
works just fine, also, but I've since put that drive on my Amiga.
As for tapes, I'm using a Wangtek 5150 SCSI drive, also on the Adaptec. No
problems so far. Backups I do are "cd /; find . -print -cpio /dev/rmt/stape4"
and away it goes. (the Wangtek is set to SCSI ID 4).
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