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Sun 669MB disk & SunOS 4.0.3

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From: Roy A. McMorran
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 19:22
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I recently took delivery of a shiny new 669 MB SCSI hard disk (Sun EXP or
some such, I believe it's a Micropolis 1588-15 under the hood) and
connected it to my SPARCStation 1.  After having some trouble with the
formatting,  I called Sun for some assistance.  After some diagnosis I was
told that this drive is "not supported" under my rev. (4.0.3) of SunOS (a
fact that my friendly sales rep. didn't mention when I was ordering- he
assumed I had 4.1, an honest mistake I suppose).

So now I am presented with two options: Buy (yes buy) a patch from Sun for
300 bucks, or upgrade my OS (no I don't have support :-() for some larger
number of bucks.  However, funds are not available to  buy this stuff
right now. It seems to me that this patch should be provided free of
charge given the circumstances...

Any comments or suggestions from the net would be welcomed.

Roy McMorran          |mcmorran@ll.mit.edu| The above should not be construed
MIT Lincoln Laboratory|                   | as an official statement of MIT
244 Wood St. B261     |(617) 981-4010     | Lincoln Laboratory or of any 
Lexington, MA 02173   |                   | US Goverment agency.
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