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- From: kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: SMD drives on a 670 server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.193050.19047@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu>
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- Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan20.212728.23857@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <lm8p52INNjgc@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:30:50 GMT
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- In article <lm8p52INNjgc@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> narad@Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- >SMD drives are no longer supported, starting with the 600MP family.
- >
- >I believe that you can contract with Sun's Special Projects Engineering
- >for this support, but you will be better off moving to modern SCSI drives
- >which are faster, denser etc. If you insist on the Specials path, try
- >your salescritter for information.
- >
- >regards,
- >chas/
-
- SMD driver support, as well as support for the old 1600/6250 tape drives are
- available in CONSULT-GDS. I've had no problems with either our tape drives
- or our disk drives with CONSULT-GDS, 4.1.3, and our 4/670.
-
- Kevin W. Thomas
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- Norman, Oklahoma
-