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Article #1475Can you use SMD disks on a Sun 330?
From: Michael J Shon
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 18:06
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 18:06
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The Sun sparcstation 330 has 5 VME slots (3x9U 2x6U). The VME slots can presumably be used for any reasonable VME board, (like a third party VME/SMD disk controller) but Sun does not offer the 330 in any configuration with SMD disks. Why? Is it that their SMD-4 controller is 9U and won't fit? (why not? the cpu takes only one 9U slot?) Is there anything that would stop me from using someone else's disk subsystem? Do you know of any that definitely work on the 330? (I know of lots of SMD systems, but they might not work). We are trying to get a SPARC system which for political reasons has to be <= $30,000 ,but we want to expand it next year into a reasonable server. SMD disks are preferred for swapping and paging large cpu-intensive jobs. Any comments are appreciated. Please mail me, as I am (our site is) way behind in News, so I won't see anything there for a while. Thanks. If I find out anything useful, I'll summarize.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: tropix!mjs@cs.rochester.edu (Michael J Shon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Can you use SMD disks on a Sun 330? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1539@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 18 Sep 89 18:06:29 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 125, message 10 of 19