Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread James W. Lynch
- 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 a

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: > 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. Thanks for the correction. Not that it helped a whole lot, by the

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread Paul Christenson
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by > SGI? I don't have that info. You'd have to ask SGI. | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY mes

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
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 af

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread Paul Christenson
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

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-20 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim 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

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-19 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? 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 doubt that it's because of cost. (Actually, i