Jason Thorpe writes: > That=E2=80=99s kind of what I figured; even though Fujitsu Eagles were = > used on both types of systems, no one was all that interested in using a = > drive from a VAX on a 3/260.
I can't even imagine dragging the RA81s over to the Sun machines 8-0. If that's even possible. At Athabasca U We had a 3/160 server with a pair of Eagles attached. Prior to that, at Nexus Computing, we built out our 3/280 with a pair of Seagate 800MB EMD drives. Fast and compact. Two drives mounted side by side in the rack, for a whopping 1.6GB! :-) That left lots of room for a public UUCP archive and many UUCP news feeds. I can't remember how we handled bad blocks on the Seagates. I have a vague memory they shipped their own software for formatting the disks. And I don't remember what controller we used to talk to them. (We also had a rackmount Telebit cage with 8 modem cards. That was a *sweet* machine :-)) -- ncc!lyndon
