[rescue] OSM-2000

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:17:51PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Steven Hill wrote:
> 
> > According to a Sun engineer I was talking to, all devices sold by sun
> > marked Differential are HVD.
> 
> That's cause Sun doesn't believe in Ultra 2 SCSI.  Their feeling
> is that if you are THAT serious about transport speed, you can
> buy fibre channel.  I wish they'd just give it up already.
> 
> At my last job, we had an array that was U2 SCSI with a third party
> card (Antares?) to run it.  There was a "driver", but all it really
> did was allow the Ultra 2 mode of the chipset, the rest of the
> driver just used the standard Sun Ultra SCSI driver.  =)

Boy, I was looking at Ultra wide controllers, and man oh man are those 
expensive (for sbus at least).
 
> > Which reminds me, I really need to get my hands on a HVD card.
> 
> Heh, I seem to recall when nobody wanted HVD Sbus cards... now that
> differential drives are appearing, it seems no one can find them =)

OK, we know you did it.  Where did you hoard all those cards?

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Joshua D. Boyd