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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!polari!lampi@polari.online.com
- From: lampi@polari.online.com
- Subject: Re: SCSI on 5500
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.174301.11476@polari>
- Summary: Maybe, if you ask enough times .....
- Organization: R Squared, Redmond, WA (206) 883-3116
- References: <9209031417.AA02114@cel.cummins.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:43:01 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <9209031417.AA02114@cel.cummins.com> philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny) writes:
- >David Krowitz says:
- >> The WD7000 controller supports two ESDI disks, a floppy, and SCSI tape
- >> drives ... no SCSI disks. This is entirely a software limitation.
- >> HP decided not to supply the SCSI disk driver for the DN3500/4500/5500
- >> series.
- >Perhaps those new SWT guys taking over development of
- >Domain/OS will look into making the drivers available. They
- >really want to prove they are going to do good things for the
- >Domain/OS customers and SCSI support on DN machines is certainly
- >high on the list of Frequently Asked Questions...
- >Unfortunately, I don't think it was raised at the Engineering
- >directions at InterWORKS...
- >
- Yes, the question was raised (by me at the HW & Peripherals SIG table)
- at InterWorks, and some other people there even voted for it. I think
- it even beat out several other issues :-)
-
- One problem that I see with SWT is that they are absolutely, 100% green to
- Domain OS. Also, the main direction they are taking (and I don't blame
- them) is to make only those changes that won't break any application.
-
- However, the SWT people I spoke with also indicated that this means they
- will be very reluctant to add significant functionality (such as SCSI disks
- on WD controllers, >4GB physical disk volumes/RAID, etc.), because this
- might break something somewhere. Also, the frequency of system releases is
- going to decrease from the torrid pace we've seen recently :-)
-
-
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