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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: SCSI disk info please.
- Message-ID: <2808@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:46:27 GMT
- References: <2804@contex.contex.com> <ni3j6m8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <ni3j6m8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <2804@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
- >
- >| Can anybody out there comment on these SCSI disks? Do they work with the
- >| 4.0.x IRIX, and what are they? Thanks.
- >|
- >| Maxtor XT8383S 5.25", 383Mb? Too slow for sync. SCSI.
- >| Maxtor XT8760S 5.25", 760Mb? Too slow for sync. SCSI.
- >
- >Sync SCSI works on these drives, I'm not sure what 'Too slow' means;
- >it does improve the transfer rate for SGI systems. The are a generation
- >or 2 old now, but may still be sufficient for your needs.
- >
- I have used these two drives a bit, and found that they work just fine
- on a 4D20 running any IRIX. Having personally upgraded about a dozen
- of theses ( 4D20/Maxtor ) to 4D25s, I found that in all but 1, the disk
- could not keep up in sync. mode, and IRIX would panic. Our experience
- in the field confirmed my experience in house.
-
- Perhaps I just got a few dozen bad disks? In any event, my testing
- showed that these disks did not reliably work in sync. mode on anything
- but an ( inherently slow ) 4D20.
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