Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon%orthanc.ca@localhost>]

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