Re: hard disk recommendation
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I looked at a new drive and the only thing I saw was a DHFS sticker from
IBM. Is that a model number or something?
As far as the Seagates, I saw a couple of ST43400ND drives here in the
office. They appear to be 2-3 years old. I don't know of any others in
use by SGI for sure, but I'd guess there are others. The 43400 is
a bit too big to fit into an Indy. I don't have an Indy torn appart
to look at right now.
>
> Paul Christenson wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
> >
> > > > In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is
> > > > using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I
> >
> > > I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and,
> > > more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts.
> >
> > SGI used to use Seagate exclusively (up to a year or so ago), but then
> > they started getting customer complaints on the drives failing. They did
> > go to Quantum for a short period, but they found that the Quantum drives
> > have a nasty habit of recalibrating themselves from time to time, which
> > makes the drives unavailable for a second or so, which really causes a
> > performance hit on these machines. Quantum was unwilling to rewrite the
> > firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only
> > ones that currently meet SGI specs.
> >
> > This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago.
>
> Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by
> SGI?
>
> lawrence,
>
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