--------- Received message begins Here --------- 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, > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]