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- From: cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andy Jack)
- Subject: What's wrong with a BA213 and a KFMSA?
- Message-ID: <0096545A.661A7C40@vax.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Reply-To: cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andy Jack)
- Organization: University of Nottingham, UK
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:42:54 GMT
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- We have a VAX 6410 that needs more disk. The existing KDB50 controller is full
- with 4 RA drives and there is a feeling that the whole system may be replaced
- next year by a 4000 series machine. It seemed a good idea to buy a KFMSA
- controller and start buying RF disks which would carry over to a 4000. An RF73
- won't go in the existing SA600 cabinet, so DEC offer us an R400X cabinet at a
- fairly high price (approx 50% of the cost of the RF73). A third party has
- offered an RF73 in a BA213 cabinet at a much lower cost but DEC say that the
- combination of a KFMSA and a BA-style cabinet for DSSI disks is not supported.
-
- Why ever not? What has the box got to do with it?
-
- Andy
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