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From: Mark Nahabedian
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:36 EDT
    From: cstacy@bbn.com

    I want to add a gigabyte to an XL1200; does anyone have any 
    particular recommendations for SCSI disks that will work well?

    In a previous adventure, I tried some smaller SCSI disks and
    found that they didn't work very well.  SCSI commands would 
    often bomb out and totally crash the system.  These same disks 
    worked just fine on SUNs.  They supported variable sector sizes.
    Perhaps there are additional device configuration constraints
    that I didn't know about.  Does anyone know what the actual
    requirements are for adding SCSI disks to XLs?

    Also, what are the LMFS and partition size restrictions?

    How well does the Genera 8.3 NFS server work?  
    I am thinking I will back up the LMFS as an NFS 
    mounted file system using Legato.

    Thanks,
    Chris

We've been buying our 1Gb disks from Impediment (http://www.impediment.com,
617-837-8877).  The storage module is a Seagate ST31200N (or maybe ST31230N).
I've heard that sometimes newer SCSI peripherals don't work with older devices.

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