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, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
